[jQuery] Web application / site testing framework using jquery?
Hi
With the emergence of web based application services (wont call it web2.0) and the prevalent iterative development methodology, there is a need for a reliable automated client-side web application testing framework. I think jQuery is an ideal tool to help create such a framework.
Here is how I'd like it to work:
1. Basically one can create a test setup where we load a site / application in an iframe. iframe will completely isolate the test bed from the site, but one could also create the test framework as a plugin that could be loaded within the site.
2. The site will be presumed to already have jquery loaded (else one can probably load it??)
3. Then one can create a test script that runs on the site in the iframe like so:
goto({url:"http://..."}); // loads url in iframe
click({element:'#link1'}); // invoke click event for specified element
wait_till_loaded({element:'#div1',timeout:3000}); // wait until the DOM element with specified id is loaded in iframe, or timeout 3000 msec
fill_form({form:'#formid',field1:value1,field2:value2...}); // fill in form values using deserialize plugin
submit_form({form:'#formid'}); // submit the form
wait_till_loaded({element:'#div2',timeout:3000}); // wait until DOM element with specified id is loaded in iframe, or timeout 3000 msec
....
and so on.
One could probably use something like the taconite or jXs (<a href="http://www.brainknot.com/code/jxs.htm">http://www.brainknot.com/code/jxs.htm</a>) xml syntax instead of the javascript syntax above, but I'd prefer to keep if javascript to keep the flexibility of creating more complex test scripts.
One could also use a system like above to create self-running demos!
Does anyone know of such a framework that already exists somewhere?
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