Test a web app – I must try Selenium in addition to WatiN

WOW!

Dan Bunea has an awesome post on Test First Web Applications

I felt a little dirty after CodeMash because Selenium was presented there and it really looked at felt like a more powerful web testing system than Watir or Watin. I had just adopted Watin for some basic tests and I had to admit I really didn’t like the fact that it was just driving an IE engine. Especially since I don’t really care about IE, Firefox is my standard.

I didn’t know about Selenium RC. Apparently I can use .NET to write my tests and they will get translated to something Selenium will use. This is what I was looking for when I opted to use Watin. I’m not sure if this was mentioned in the CodeMash presentation. I had duct out trying to see both the Selenium talk and the “What Makes Rails Work” talk.

Thanks to Dan for the awesome post.

Oh and the post is also an awesome example of building a MonoRail application.