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have you tried selenium grid?

On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 8:40 AM, wade <onlywade / gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mar 17, 2:13 pm, Phlip <phlip2... / gmail.com> wrote:
> > wade wrote:
> > > I'm using Ruby's Test::Unit framework to drive some functional tests
> > > which use Selenium to perform E2E scenarios against a web app in a
> > > real browser.  As one can easily imagine, running a large suite of
> > > browser-based tests in serial can take ages
> >
> > How many of these tests could run against the source code directly, as
> real unit
> > tests?
> >
> > --
> >    Phlip
> >    http://assert2.rubyforge.org/
>
> Really none of them, unfortunately.  This specific domain of tests are
> designed to be a sort of automated acceptance test to be carried out
> following a deployment of the app, from an end-user perspective.  Thus
> the need to simulate "real world" interactions, starting from a
> browser and essentially excersizing each layer of the stack in an end
> to end manner..
>
>

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