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Developing web applications is getting more complex - it’s easy to accidentally break functionality as changes are made. In this article, Ben describes the setup his team uses test their apps as changes are committed; automatically notifying the developers of any problems.

Developing web applications is getting more complex - it’s easy to accidentally break functionality as changes are made. In this article, Ben describes the setup his team uses test their apps as changes are committed; automatically notifying the developers of any problems.

Selenium Remote Control (SRC) is a test tool that allows you to write automated web application UI tests in any programming language against any HTTP website using any mainstream JavaScript-enabled browser. SRC provides a Selenium Server, which can automatically start/stop/control any supported browser. It works by using Selenium Core, a pure-HTML JS library that performs automated tasks in JavaScript; the Selenium Server communicates directly with the browser using AJAX (XmlHttpRequest).

Outil entièrement écrit en Javascript qui permet de tester une application web en jouant des scénarios directement dans le navigateur. Selenium IDE est une extension de Firefox qui permet d'enregistrer des tests Selenium. Les scénarios sont rédigés soit sous formes de tables HTML soit sous forme de programmes qui pilotent le navigateur (Ruby, Python, Java, C#).