Topic Archive: Selenium

Ajax Testing: Doubling Down with Selenium and JMeter

Dietrich Kappe, Friday, April 4, 2008 @ 11:41 am

This idea comes from my colleague John McCaffrey, but since he's having a bad case of blogger's block, I get to post about it.

For anyone who has developed tests for web applications with a tool like Selenium (or Watir), you know it is a sysiphean task, rolling the boulder of automated tests up the hill of a constantly changing application. The DOM changes, the text changes, the url's and parameter's change, iframes and onload events don't always play nice with your test recorder. Depending on the framework you are using, id's may change in unpredictable ways, forcing you to hack together brittle xpath expressions. Still, functional testing is important, so you persevere, spending countless hours in making those tests run clean.

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