From: Daevid Vincent > I have a form with probably 100+ elements from input, checkbox, select > boxes, textareas, etc. It's extremely tedious to fill these in all the time > and submit while developing/testing. > > Anyone know of a plugin to Firefox (or IE for that matter) that will fill in > the fields, select stuff, check stuff, etc. with some modicum of > predictability. Random text only goes so far when debugging as you don't > necessarily know what the field SHOULD contain. The Selenium IDE plug-in records a macro when you fill out the form. You can run, edit and save that macro, or export it to a half dozen different languages, then copy and edit those scripts, etc. I record whole session scenarios, export them to Perl and run them through the Selenium Remote Control server. I manage them with Perl's Test::Harness. I am slowly building up a regression test suite for a commercial site. I tried to do it in PHP, but couldn't find a functional test harness that wasn't OO based. (Unfortunately, after 40 years of procedural programming, mostly in assembly languages, I have no class.) One note, the IDE will not import scripts once they are exported. You can only load scripts that were saved. These appear to be an xhtml format. Bob McConnell -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
