Re: [HtmlUnit] HttpUnit

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Mike Bresnahan <mbr...@vi...> schrieb am 15.05.2003, 17:51:23:
> I'm giving a presentation next week on HtmlUnit and I just know that 
> someone is going to ask about HttpUnit.  However, I have no experience 
> with it, nor did a google search turn up anything comparing HttpUnit and 
> HtmlUnit.  Has anyone used both APIs?  If so, do they care to share their 
> thoughts?

Personnaly I have no experience with HttpUnit. But there turned up a
nice book here at our company, which might give some impressions on
HttpUnit and how to use it. Just flipping through the HttpUnit-related
pages made me decide, that I like HtmlUnit much more ;)

The book is called "Java Extreme Programming Cookbook" and it's written
by Eric M. Burke & Brian M. Coyner. Oh, and it's published by O'Reilly.
I can recommand this book very much, because it covers some interesting
test-related topics from a nice practical oriented point of view. There
are nice recipes on how using ant, junit, HttpUnit and some tools more
and how to combine them. 

Oh, by the way, there might be questions on you presentation, that ask
for other APIs to test web based user interfaces. Recently I found this
one here:

   https://sourceforge.net/projects/jwebunit/

Just by flipping through the java documentation I decided, that I don't
like it. Have a look yourself ;) 
Besides that, there is not as much activity on the project like it is
with HtmlUnit. 

Here is another interesting link for software testing. Gives you some
overview about testing tools. Question to Mike B.: Why doesn't HtmlUnit
appear in this list? ;)

  http://www.softwareqatest.com/


And another project I just discovered, which might be interesting: 

  http://xmltestsuite.sourceforge.net


Hope this helps


Best regards, 
Thomas Bartz
Berlin