Next Generation Java Testing - Webapps

[Joan Horta Tosas]

Hi Cedric and Hani.

My questions are about what parts of testing webapps does cover your book. Does it cover JSPs, HTML compatibility between browsers, Javascript and/or AJAX? Thanks.

Joan Horta

[Jeanne Boyarsky]

Joan,
As you can see in the table of contents, servlets are covered. In particular, mocks and in container testing (commons-httpclient and Jetty).

[Joan Horta Tosas]

I saw the TOC before posting, and I saw the servlets testing, but didn't know if that included the things I asked, which were not strictly related to JEE, but to HTML (compatibility tests with different browsers), Javascript and AJAX generated by this servlets and JSPs...

[Jeanne Boyarsky]

Joan,
It doesn't. The focus of that section lies elsewhere.

JUnit in Action covers those concepts well (except AJAX.) In JUnit rather than TestNG of course.

[Hani Suleiman]

We do cover Selenium briefly, which allows you to do cross browser testing.

I'll be honest though and say that despite using it and getting to know it, it didnt quite 'feel' right, and I couldnt get myself happy enough with its usage to be comfortable integrating it into my testing toolbox, so to speak.

Testing ajax is actually much simpler than testing html. We dont explicitly cover it (though we probably should have, its a great buzzword!) but the principles are exactly the same. You can for example run your servlets (or whatever is serving ajax) in-memory and invoke it as a browser would, then test the response. It's simpler than testing html because the response fragments are much smaller and easier to work with.

[Joan Horta Tosas]

Ok, thanks for your responses.

[Cedric Beust]

Originally posted by Joan Horta Tosas:
I saw the TOC before posting, and I saw the servlets testing, but didn't know if that included the things I asked, which were not strictly related to JEE, but to HTML (compatibility tests with different browsers), Javascript and AJAX generated by this servlets and JSPs...

For your information, there is a lot of material describing how to use TestNG and Selenium together. Do a Google search on "testng selenium" and you'll find several articles (one of which on developerworks.com, which is not responding right now).

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Cedric