PushToTest version 5.2 (which should be out this Spring) will feature Selenium integrated into the PushToTest test automation platform. See http://bugs.pushtotest.com/ticket/136 for details.) Selenium users will create functional tests of Web and Ajax applications using the Selenium plug-in to MS Internet Explorer, Firefox, Mozilla, and other browsers. PushToTest users have two choices to run Selenium tests in the PushToTest test automation environment:

1) PushToTest 5.2 will include a Selenium test runner. This runner instantiates a Web browser in a TestNode (our distributed test environment,) operates the Selenium test, and reports the results. This is a powerful choice to run Selenium tests as functional and regression tests, and business service monitors.

2) PushToTest 5.2 includes a Selenium-to-Java and Selenium-to-Jython transformation utility. The utility creates a Java class (or Jython script) that implements the test steps using the HTMLUnit framework. HTMLUnit acts like a browser, including operating Ajax applications using Rhino (the JavaScript engine from the Apache Mozilla/Firefox browsers.) The is a powerful choice to run Selenium tests as load and performance tests.

For both of the above options, Selenium tests receive dynamic operational data at runtime from PushToTest Data Production Libraries (DPLs.) For instance, a Selenium test that operates a sign-in page receives the account number and password from a DPL that accesses data from a comma-separated-value file (or a relational database or custom DPL.)

Additionally, Selenium tests produce results data that PushToTest Results Analysis engine renders into hundreds of charts. And, these charts correlate Selenium test operation to resource utilization (CPU, Network, Memory, Threads) in the back-end server.

We have an "alpha" quality version of the Selenium-to-Jython transformation utility to give to you today. This is from a contribution from Dominique and Olivier at Denali. All you need to do is ask.

-Frank