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HtmlUnit 2.4, a headless java browser, released
A new release of the pure GUI-Less browser is available, which allows high-level manipulation of web pages, such as filling forms, clicking links, accessing attributes and values of specific elements within the pages, you do not have to create lower-level requests of TCP/IP or HTTP, but just getPage(url), find a hyperlink, click() and you have all the HTML, JavaScript, and Ajax are automatically processed.
The most common use of HtmlUnit is test automation of web pages (even with complex JavaScript libraries, like jQuery and Google Web Toolkit), but sometimes it can be used for web scraping, or downloading website content.
The main enhancements:- Improved JavaScript support, now all jQuery and Mochikit tests pass, adding to already supported GWT and Sarissa
- Native ActiveX support
- Initial applets handling
- Support for Internet Explorer conditional comments
- And as usual, various bug fixes
You can find more information in the official website, the development team is looking forward to getting your feedback.
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Message #297996
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Jmeter?
I wonder how easily this could be implemented as a plugin to jmeter. I know one of the toughest thing about managing more dynamic apps and workflows are getting the regex's correct and hoping the pre-processors work.
With something like HtmlUnit you wouldn't have to digg through the posts and responses (with the exception of assertions), just interface with the app more naturally.
Sounds cool.
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Message #297997
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Comparisons
This sounds pretty nice, but I'd still be worried about differences in behavior between this and the browsers I'm actually targeting.
I'm also curious if there are tools with similar functionality (whether Java-based or not).
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Message #297998
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Re: Comparisons
... but I'd still be worried about differences in behavior between this and the browsers I'm actually targeting...
From documentation:
Specifying this BrowserVersion will change the user agent header that is sent up to the server and will change the behavior of some of the JavaScript.
public void homePage_Firefox() throws Exception {
final WebClient webClient = new WebClient(BrowserVersion.FIREFOX_2);
final HtmlPage page = webClient.getPage("http://htmlunit.sourceforge.net");
assertEquals("HtmlUnit - Welcome to HtmlUnit", page.getTitleText());
}
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Message #297999
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Re: Comparisons
This sounds pretty nice, but I'd still be worried about differences in behavior between this and the browsers I'm actually targeting. That depends, if your web application doesn't use JavaScript or your application include jQuery, GWT, Mochikit, and/or sarissa, you will have exact behavior as FF2/FF3/IE6/IE7, because HtmlUnit tests already include actual test cases/examples of those libraries.
If you use Prototype, Ext JS, Dojo, YUI, you will have some successful cases, and some unsuccessful ones.
HtmlUnit has a real active community; some bugs are fixed in few hours if they are simple. If you have a minimal test case, expect a quick response.
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Re: Comparisons
HtmlUnit is a great library, we can't get by without it. We have 100s of automated downloads that would require users to navigate websites and download reports. Websites targeted use heavy javascript and a mixture of plain html, jsp, coldfusion.
We used HttpUnit years ago, that was probably the first hit on google at the time. But no one touched it for several years, so we moved off it and on to this library.
I used another tool at one company called iMacros. It's not free and runs strictly on Windows. The only nice thing that you could do is record as you're clicking through the site. Although very simple, it's painful to write the HtmlUnit code for larger tests. One idea would be an automatic code generator via firefox addon that would generate a good starting point.
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Re: sesli
When is that captcha going to be implemented again? At least this list has a nice selection... and transsexuals, so nobody feels left out.
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Re: Comparisons
... One idea would be an automatic code generator via firefox addon that would generate a good starting point.
Have you tried the WebTestRecorder firefox plugin?
WebTest is a thin layer over the top of HtmlUnit which let's you write your tests in Ant (if you have folk comfortable with XML) or Groovy (if you have folk comfortable with Java or scripting). We use the latter as part of a testing DSL. We tend to heavily refactor what a recorder gives us but it makes a great start for tedious pages.
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Re: Compare with HTTPClient
How does this compare with HttpClient (from Apache)?
http://hc.apache.org/httpclient-3.x/
HttpClient is actually used by HtmlUnit. HttpClient is a powerful library for lower layer HTTP requests, but doesn't handle JavaScript/browser objects/DOM etc, what are all handled by HtmlUnit.
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