web2test – versatile and innovative web testing tool
web2test is a versatile web testing tool with several innovative approaches. web2test provides for example browser and platform independent test scripts which once recorded can be replayed on different browser/platform combinations (see also Cross browser and cross platform web based application testing). This greatly reduces the effort for creation and maintenance of test scripts.
The intelligent recognition of GUI components is another specific feature of the web testing tool. web2test uses different heuristics for the identification of components (for further information regarding web2test’s component recognition see Testing dynamic IDs with a web application test tool). This renders the test scripts tolerant to layout changes and permits to start testing earlier in the development cycle compared to other web testing tools.
figure 1: chronological classification of manual and automated tests with and without web2test
The web testing tool web2test uses capture & replay for creating and running test cases. Via mouse click one can easily insert different checks during the recording. This approach in combination with Drag & Drop and an intuitive GUI facilitates the familiarization with the web testing tool and permits to create test cases without programming knowledge. Hence even experts from other areas than software development can be assigned with the creation of test scripts.
Further features are:
- the web testing tool ‘s support for data driven tests (see also Data driven web application testing)
- the web testing tool ‘s 100% support of Ajax (see also Ajax test)
- the Jython and Groovy scripting interface, which gives advanced users the opportunity to adapt the web testing tool to specific needs
- the Javascript bridge, which permits the web testing tool to access any Javascript object
Via browser embedding web2test has a direct and constant access to the browser DOM. While replaying test scripts the recorded events can be mapped directly on the DOM components. Together with capture & replay and taking in account the visibility of elements, the web testing tool simulates real user interactions. Thanks to the embedding the web testing tool has also access to browser settings, like proxy, cookies or locale which permits to dynamically adjust the prerequisites.
As a conclusion web2test stands out - compared to other web testing tools - thanks to a higher ROI and a better and more comprehensive support of the special requirements of different web applications, which again are a result of the different possibilities of adjustment, the innovative approaches and the reduced effort which is necessary for creation and maintenance of test scripts.
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