[Webtest] newbie qs about Canoo webtest - is data input into the browser?

[Lisa Crispin]

If you're concerned with checking browser-specific behavior, then WebTest would not be what you want.  In my experience, most browser incompatibilities are in client-side stuff like Javascript, which WebTest can't really test anyway.  If, like me, you are testing an app which contains little client-side code and works pretty much the same in any browser, WebTest is fine.  It certainly finds bugs for us!
-- Lisa


-------------- Original message from "Philip, Anil [ITS]" : -------------- 
> But that would not be a valid test - since it is eliminating one layer 
> (the browser). 
> Am I correct? 
> 
> -----Original Message----- 
> From: webtest-admin@gate2.canoo.com 
> [mailto:webtest-admin@gate2.canoo.com] On Behalf Of Lisa Crispin 
> Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2004 4:39 PM 
> To: webtest@gate2.canoo.com 
> Subject: Re: [Webtest] newbie qs about Canoo webtest - is data input 
> into the browser? 
> 
> 
> I'm kind of a newbie too and thus not the best person to answer your 
> question, but I know that WebTest doesn't use any browser, just the 
> http. It is built on top of HTTPUnit. 
> -- Lisa 
> 
> 
> -------------- Original message from "Philip, Anil [ITS]" : 
> -------------- 
> Hello, 
> I would like to use Webtest to reduce the mammoth hours our test team is 
> putting in. I read the White paper and the samples, however was unable 
> to answer a very important question: Is the data input into the Internet 
> Explorer browser? or is it just a http simulator? ie. I want (say) on 
> the login page, the username, password to be input into the IE browser 
> and the Submit Button pressed, not a http 'post' sent directly to the 
> server. Or put another way, Does Canoo use the java.awt.Robot class to 
> input data into the web pages? 
> thanks, 
> Anil Philip 
> Sprint, 
> Overland Park, KS 
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