An Introduction to Testing Web Applications with twill and Selenium

An Introduction to Testing Web Applications with twill and Selenium

Chapter 1. Introduction
  Section 1.1. What Don't We Cover?
  Section 1.2. What Are twill and Selenium? And Why Not...
  Section 1.3. Contacting the authors
  Section 1.4. Acknowledgements
Chapter 2. Functional Web Testing with twill
  Section 2.1. A brief history of twill
  Section 2.2. What Is twill?
  Section 2.3. Introducing twill
  Section 2.4. More Advanced twill Features
  Section 2.5. twill Extensions
  Section 2.6. Using twill from Python
  Section 2.7. Extending twill Yourself
Chapter 3. Functional Web Testing with Selenium
  Section 3.1. A Brief History of Selenium
  Section 3.2. Introducing Selenium Core
  Section 3.3. Building a Selenium Test Suite
Chapter 4. Testing a Simple Web Application with twill and Selenium
  Section 4.1. The Django "poll" Application
  Section 4.2. The First Step: Charting a Path to Test
  Section 4.3. The Second Step: Building a Test Script
  Section 4.4. The Third Step: Controlling the Application Environment
  Section 4.5. Integrating Fixtures and Tests with unittest
  Section 4.6. The admin Interface
  Section 4.7. Recording Some Simple Selenium Tests
  Section 4.8. Adding a Test Condition to the Script
  Section 4.9. Concluding Remarks

This Short Cut is an introduction to building automated web tests using two tools, twill and Selenium. twill is a simple web scripting language that can be used to automate web tests, while Selenium is a web testing framework that runs in any browser and can be used to test complex web sites that make extensive use of JavaScript.

The best way to use this Short Cut is to run through the examples. We expect that within an hour you can start writing your own functional tests in either twill or Selenium, and within a day you will understand most, if not all, of the possibilities and the limitations of these tools.

This book is divided into three parts. First we introduce twill and show how you can browse the Web and test basic web applications with twill. Next we introduce Selenium and discuss using Selenium to test sites that use JavaScript and Ajax technologies. Finally, we build some tests for a simple Django application using both twill and Selenium, and show how to integrate these tests into your development.