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Re: Browser based testing of your own code (Score:1)

by daxim (8218)

i haven't seen a tool that automates konqueror, opera, explorer and mozilla.
The heyday of Konqueror is over. Wouldn't you rather test with Webkit based browsers? http://seleniumhq.org/docs/01_introducing_selenium.html#supported-browsers [seleniumhq.org]
X11::GUITest [...] provides the basics of being able to recognise a window and send keystrokes and mouse clicks to it, which should be enough.
That's not enough at all. Dump of an Opera 10 application window that has loaded one document with a complex HTML form:
> xwinin
- Re: Browser based testing of your own code (Score:1)
  
  by daxim (8218) on 2009.11.16 9:03 (#71142) Homepage Journal
  
  > xwininfo -children
  
  I made a mistake there, should have been -tree instead of -children. The argument still stands – the descendant windows have neither type nor name.
  
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