[Seaside] watir-like web testing in squeak

Adrian Lienhard adi at netstyle.ch
Wed Oct 14 16:10:06 UTC 2009


Yes, there is Albatross: www.squeaksource.com/Albatross.html

Cheers,
Adrian

BTW, is anybody using it?


On Oct 14, 2009, at 17:31 , Dave Bauer wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 11:27 AM, David Mitchell
> <david.mitchell at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Nothing as complete as Watir. You could just use Watir to test your  
>> seaside
>> app.
>>
>> For simple get/post action in Smalltalk, you could pull Scamper (a  
>> Squeak
>> browser) and script it. It is fairly easy to understand/port. Bijan  
>> Parsia's
>> networking chapter in the squeak blue book has a nice intro.
>>
>> See the parsia_2.pdf at:
>> http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr/FreeBooks/CollectiveNBlueBook/
>>
>> I ported it once to VA Smalltalk in the late 90s for some internal  
>> website
>> testing. Unfortunately, no support CSS/Javascript, etc. and you  
>> would want
>> those for something modern.
>
>
>
> See Selenium Remote Control http://seleniumhq.org/projects/remote-control/
> It is very simple to build the server side adapter since it works by
> sending HTTP requests to the Remove Control server which drives the
> browser for testing. It can test IE, FF, or Safari.
>
> Dave
>
>>
>> If you really wanted Watir in Smalltalk, you could do a port. This  
>> would be
>> a bunch of work, but since it is Ruby, the concepts should be  
>> similar. For
>> the browser binding, you'll need something like OSProcess.
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 3:49 AM, Ching de la Serna <ching.dls at gmail.com 
>> >
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi All,
>>> I was wondering if there is something in Squeak which does something
>>> similar to what Watir does in Ruby? Watir appears to be a cool  
>>> toolkit for
>>> testing web apps and I would want to find out if something similar  
>>> or better
>>> has been written in Squeak for testing purposes.
>>> Thanks in advance,
>>> Ching
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