[Jwebunit-development] Enhancement Suggestion.

[Nick N. <Nic...@sn...>]

FYI - I just posted this to the Forum....  Forum....Mailing Lists,,,,etc.
All these different support mechanisms....  The forums should be removed and
only use the mailing list.  :-}
My 2cents. I'm very glad to see people ambitous about keeping the "main"
jwebunit" and NOT forking... Users need to understand thats the way
open-source is. Most contributors don't get paid a dime... They write the
open-source code for a specific (contracting-type) project, then go on to
another project. Anyway...off my soap-box...    (I mean no harm when I say
that......looks like the projects is being revived.).

I tried using jWebUnit a while back and had too much trouble. Not really
from webunit, but from HttpUnit and its lack of javascript support...It's
horrible....

I'm currently working on an API that works directly with true web-browsers
such as Internet Explorer via (Jacob or Java-Com-Bridge). Here is the
project I have created.
<http://sourceforge.net/projects/jacobie/>


I would like to make a suggestion, and I can start creating the
ground-work.... Keeping the same jwebunit / layer, but creating some java
interfaces to implement different kinds of webtesting....ie...."httpunit",
"ie-jacobie", "etc".

I would like to run the exact same webunit tests using the same code, just
switching to a different "WebTester".

//psuedo scratch.
JWebUnit.installTester(JWebUnit.HTTPUNIT);
or
JWebUnit.installTester(JWebUnit.JACOBIE);

//same tests as usuall, just all interaction with a specific "tester" will
be delegated via the "interface" classes.


1) Jim... If you are the main guy. Are you interested in a possible major
"refactoring" effort for jWebUnit.

2) I'm very willing to produce the code to do it, at least on the jWebUnit
side.

3) My main goal, is that I don't want to reinvent "jwebunit" to be "browser"
ized...

jWebUnit has a very good foundation to build on....

Thoughts!!!

Nick Neuberger




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