Comments on: WebTest vs Selenium: WebTest wins 13 – 5

By: Alexander Orlov

Alexander Orlov — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 14:18:35 +0000

@rex:
You don’t need neither Selenium nor WebTest if you are using GWT because GWT has its own Unit Testing environment based on JUnit.

By: krishna

krishna — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 07:16:05 +0000

The blog posts back to October 29, 2007 .. It is been 2 yrs and lot of changes would have been made in both the Tools .Can any one tell the latest comparision . I have seen selenium IDE which is good for recording , but managing part is still not clear ..

By: Marc Guillemot

Marc Guillemot — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 08:13:39 +0000

Zahid,

if I correctly understand your strategy to capture JS errors with Selenium and IE, you just wait that the tests get blocked because the error notification popup is shown? Is it correct? In this case, this is not at all what I understand with test automation.

By: Zahid

Zahid — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:06:46 +0000

Its nice to read this article. But it may be bit dated.
eg you can verify Java script error with selenium in say “IE” – by
turning on Tools-InternetOption->Advance -> “Display notification for script error” .
Does webtest provide any good “recording” tool ? If not – then most people
will not use it. Also since the output language is in lots of language(html,.net,java etc) – the use will just increase.

Thanks,
Zahid
http://www.jroller.com/selenium

By: Mark Levison

Mark Levison — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 17:45:15 +0000

This an interesting comparison but I think far more interesting would Selenium Core vs. WebTest. Any thoughts on how the score would change?

I ask because as attractive as WebTest looks to me, my client will probably use Selenium Core.

By: rex

rex — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 21:14:13 +0000

Does WebTest support GWT type code?

By: Mhia

Mhia — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 04:05:57 +0000

Hi there,

Im Mhia and new in testing and it was my first time to use web test. DO you have any link or forum ?

Thanks in advance!

By: jim

jim — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 22:21:08 +0000

Hi i have a question im tried to select a functional testing tool open source hopefully but i have it some problems with the WebTest tool, the problem is when i do it a test in a site using jboss seam (Faces or Ajax) they dont recognize the lateral menu that i using for my app. Someone have it the solution of that problem. Thanks for your help ans if you now other functional testing tool i appreciated.

By: John

John — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 21:10:01 +0000

Selenium is a great tool and a brilliant idea, just the “record and reply” style usually cannot be used for practical testing. There are something missing there i.e, there should be another tier over Selenium to make tests easier to write and maintain. We created the Tellurium automated testing framework for this purpose. It is UI module centric and very expressive. You can use DSL to write tests. It also provides data driven testing feature. The project is at:

http://code.google.com/p/aost/

Thanks.

By: Kalivo.com - Web testing frameworks

Kalivo.com - Web testing frameworks — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 14:39:25 +0000

[...] This blog post shows an excellent comparison between the two tools. It favors WebTest due to some of its greater feature set. This post however favors Selenium due to the ease of use. [...]