| Software |
Advantages |
Disadvantages |
Status |
| Spider |
- acts as test harness for various suites of tests: JS, DOM, top site
- Developer (Bob Clary) on staff
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In use on QA test farm. |
| Selenium |
|
- Designed for web application testing, not end-to-end browser testing.
|
Under investigation |
| Eggplant |
|
- Bitmap-based testing is inherently fragile.
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Coop is working with Eggplant on the test farm to generate some proof-of-concept tests. |
| TestGen4Web |
|
- Designed for web application testing, not end-to-end browser testing.
|
Under investigation |
| dogtail |
- Python-based: would be easy to extend
|
- Reliant on accessibility hooks.
- still very alpha
|
Under investigation (bc) |
| LDTP |
- someone in China is already working to automate testing of Firefox (1.0.6)
|
- Requires Gnome
- Reliant on accessibility hooks.
|
Under investigation (coop) |
| Tomato |
|
|
Under investigation (coop) |
| Grubzilla |
- promises automated and "hidden" testcase generation
|
- Reliant on expert domain knowledge (hard to get) to seed testcase generation.
- No existing examples (that are accessible at least)
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Waiting on feedback from Edjard and/or Monica. We tasked them to provide some proof-of-concept testcases for Software Update and Preferences. |
| Tracer |
- architecture is interesting
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- Captures a lot of information that we don't really care about.
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Possibly reuse this design pattern in the future, but the tool itself is of limited use. |
| WATIR |
- Used by many in the testing community
- Designed for use in testing
|
- Drives IE, not FF
- Designed for testing web app, not browser
|
davel to investigate |
| SAMIE |
- Designed for use in testing
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- Drives IE, not FF
- Very little recent activity
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davel to investigate |
