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To: "Claudio Garcia" <claudio@metadot.com>, modperl@apache.org From: jh_lists@fastmail.fm Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] RoboWeb 1.0b, web application test suite generator Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 08:37:21 UT > I have developed a semi-automatic test generator for web applications. > I've called it "RoboWeb" and it's now available for download from > sourceforge, hoping that it can be useful to others. > Unbelievable... Three days ago I looked for something suitable for writing test suites and came up a blank, so for the last 3 days I've been writing WWW::Automate. And now this great looking package appears when I'm 75% done! Anyhow, I'll finish what I'm doing over the weekend and release it, since it has some different functionality to RoboWeb, including finding form elements to fill in based on their relationship to other elements (e.g. "the text field after the text 'User Name:'" or "The checkbox in the table column headed 'Flag', in the 3rd row"). We should investigate how these 2 projects can work together when I'm done so that RoboWeb 'recorded' sessions can create WWW::Automate methods that utilise the structure of the page. The benefits of doing this are: 1- Resultant scripts are easier to interpret 2- Scripting apps that vary their form field names works. ===