两个WEB自动化测试工具比较 WatiN & Selenium RC

原文发表于：2008-04-06 16:35:02

Item	WatiN	Selenium RC
Explorer Supported	Known work Ø  IE 6 and IE 7	Known work Ø  IE 6 and IE 7 Ø  Firefox 1.5.0 and 2.0 Ø  Opera 8.5.4 and 9.0.2 Should work Ø  Firefox 0.8 to 2.0 Ø  Mozilla Suite 1.6+, 1.7+ Ø  Sea monkey 1.0
System supported	Known work Ø  Windows XP and 2003	Known work Ø  Windows XP and 2003 Ø  Windows 2000(need to install install reg.exein order to use IE) Ø  Mac OS X Ø  Linux
Language supported	Ø  C#	Ø  C# Ø  Java Ø  Perl Ø  PHP Ø  Python Ø  Ruby
Test environment supported	Ø  Visual Studio 2005 Team System	Ø  Visual Studio 2005 Team System
AJAX	Supports AJAX website testing	l  Selenium Server communicates directly with the browser using AJAX (XmlHttpRequest) l  The Selenium Server is great for testing complex AJAX-based web user interfaces under a Continuous Integration system
Get/Post requests		We can send commands directly to the Server using simple HTTP GET/POST requests
Https supported		Support for https
Javascrīpt Supported	Void Document.Runscrīpt(string)	l  We can write selenium RC tests in Javascrīpt with JsUnit. l  it Allows a Selenium-enabled browser to run Javascrīpt on arbitrary websites.
HTML	Automates all major HTML elements and find elements by multiple attributes
HTML dialogs	Supports HTML dialogs (modal and modeless)
Frame	Supports frame (Cross domain) and iframes
Popup dialogs	Supports popup dialogs like alert, confirm, login etc
Screenshots	Support creating screenshots of web pages
		对现有控件的兼容性不好。比如文件上传控件和日历控件就无法在Selenium RC中捕捉 2.不支持https连接方式？？ http://bbs.51testing.com/thread-84131-1-6.html

Developing Info

Item	WatiN	Selenium RC
Developing Language	Ø  C#	Ø  Java and so on

Methods Example

Item	WatiN Example	Selenium RC Example
Set  element event	Document.button(Find.ById(btnG”)).click()	DefaultSelenium.Type(“q”,”hello world”)
Get element attributes	Document.button (Find.ById(btnG”)).Style. Height	DefaultSelenium.GetElementHeight(“q”)
especial methods	Then we can’t hanle the time used for pages loading.                            ===》       Ø  Link[1].Click() Ø  Link(Find.ByIndex(1)).Click() We can use these two methods to click the links that the value is null.	Ø  WaitForPageToLoad(“5000”) (if we want to go to another page and get the elements in the new page, we have to use the method, or we will in the old page.)     《==    We can’t find the links that the value is null