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29 Jul, 2009

Selenium has evolved; enter Bromine

Posted by: j pimmel In: functional tests|tdd|testing

As a long time user and advocate of Selenium I have found that using it on large projects ultimately consumes a lot of time with the following concerns: Organising tests into logical groups Executing testcases against multiple target browsers Parallel execution of testcases The motivation for these is to speed development; as the number of tests [...]

23 Jul, 2009

JSON Webtests with Grails

Posted by: j pimmel In: development|functional tests|grails

I recently figured out how to use WebTest for functional testing of Grails controller actions that render JSON. That said, I’m not convinced it’s the best way – I’m fairly sure the gFunc plugin would do it nicely, though I ran into problems with it clean compiling the whole app on every run. Custom steps [...]


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