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Ask HN: What tools do you use for testing your web apps.
I've recently been using Selenium to do automated testing on my web app.
Any other testing tools you'd recommend? What do you like about them?
- utnick 18y agoSomeone at our last ruby meetup demo'd a project he was working on called watirloo http://github.com/marekj/watirloo/tree/master http://github.com/marekj/watirloo/tree/master It looks really cool Also just plain watir is a good tool for setting up some unit tests
- wr1472 18y agoI'd echo the use of WATiR. Never used Ruby before (although it's been on my list of things to do for a long time), let alone WATiR but managed to learn enough of the language and the framework to write a DSL based on WATiR. The idea being that it would be simple enough for non-developers (read testers) to pick-up relatively easily. We're using it to test an enterprise grade ASP.NET application and it's doing well so far. Although you can only run it against IE, I think there is a FF version called FireWATiR which is based on a fork of the code to not exactly the same but similar enough. The other minor drawback is that it doesn't work well when waiting for AJAX requests; you have to get a bit clever and use some of way of noting an AJAX call has come back - for example the hiding of a progress bar. Other than that a great lightweight and free tool to improve your code!