Functionality Test Tool from ThoughtWorks
ThoughtWorks has been known for two
things: First, that\’s where the modern maestro and guru of Java -
Martin Fowler works at. Second, that\’s the creator of the
CruiseControl continuous
integration suite.\r
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Thoughtworks has delivered the third member of the trinity:
Selenium - an automated
functionality-testing engine for web-applications.\r
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Having such tool for a web-development greoup is priceless. I have been
pushing Doug to buy a
SilkTest
license, for quite some time, now. SilkTest has been one of the leaders
in the area. Unfortunately, Doug is being, for what seems to me, overly
cautious (I am not gonna say, “greedy” as he may read this post LOL.
Just kidding) sometimes so it never happened.\r
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Selenium is open-source. That\’s good news. I think it is, probabely
far from SilkTest, yet (just a guess, did not have a chance to look at
it, yet) but knowing ThoughtWorks, I guess it will not take them too
long to make it a nice tool.\r
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Wonderful! Considering that our QA-to-be guy will, probably, not know
neither SilkTest, here is a chance to adopt something for free (yeah, I
know it\’s not like “in beer”, but it usually is).\r
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Kudos to ThoughtWorks.