Post about using Canoo WebTest with broken Server Certificate

Lee Butts has generously posted about his experience with using Canoo WebTest in a scenario where the server doesn't present a valid certificate. Read his post here: http://www.leebutts.com/2008/09/how-to-webtest-site-using-invalid-ssl.html .

happy testing Dierk

WebTest at University of Santa Clara

Prof. John Noll runs his course on Software Quality Assurance and Testing again in the 2006 spring semester.

This course has become a tradition over the years. It uses Canoo WebTest for test automation.

One of the really cool things is that the course is not targeted at software developers but at students of business administration that act as customers of a web application development project modelling their requirements as WebTests.

Find further information under http://www.cse.scu.edu/~jnoll/286/projects/index.html

cheers Mittie

Support Canoo WebTest at IntelliJ IDEA

Intellij does a survey on what people need when developing AJAX-enabled webapps.

They try to find out what developers really need in order to support them best.

This is our chance to raise the WebTest awareness at this tool provider.

please visit http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/ajax_quest.jsp

and checkmark 'Canoo WebTest' under section 10.

cheers Mittie

WebTest expert Paul King speaking at Agile2006

Meet a WebTest committer!

Paul King gives a half-day tutorial at Agile Conference http://www.agile2006.org .

Check out Tutorial "TU24: Agile Testing of Web Applications using WebTest", Wednesday 27/07/2006 09:00 - 12:30.

cheers Mittie

Announcing Canoo WebTest 2.0

Dear WebTest users,

I'm happy to announce the delivery of Canoo WebTest 2.0.

Check it out under http://webtest.canoo.com .

This newest version shines with

• elaborate JavaScript support thanks to using HtmlUnit 1.8
• improved and enlarged set of available steps, featuring core steps, extensions, filters, PDF, Excel, Email, Applets, and technical details such as HTTP headers and Cookies
• supporting both the traditional specification of test cases in terms of ant/xml and scripting test cases in Groovy
• excellent online user manual (including many examples) that fits snugly into the new WebTest website and is built right from the WebTest source code
• unrivalled tool quality thanks to our committer's dedication, the automated build process, and 100% test coverage.

A big THANK YOU goes to our committer's crew with Denis Antonioli, Marc Guillemot, and Paul King in the forefront.

It's you, guys, who make this happen!

happy testing
Dierk König
Canoo WebTest Project Manager

WebTest at Swiss Testing Day

Our long-standing WebTest expert *Benny Feiermann* will hold a talk on Canoo WebTest at the Swiss Testing day March 15th in Zuerich / Switzerland.

http://www.swisstestingday.ch/en/programm.php

happy testing

Mittie

WebTest in Grails

The upcoming Grails project will include sophisticated support for Canoo WebTest.

Grails is an open-source application framework based on Groovy. see http://grails.codehaus.org .

Grails allows easy defintion of domain classes, views, and controllers from scaffolded artifacts. For these artifacts, it also scaffolds WebTests, see http://grails.codehaus.org/Functional+Testing .

Grails is comparable to Ruby on Rails but runs on the Java platform and leverages the power of J2EE, Spring, and Hibernate. It even works with existing Java domain classes and mappings.

--Dierk Koenig

Canoo WebTest in the press

I'm happy to announce 2 articles about Webtest (both available only in printed editions):

In Better Software Magazine (November-December 2005, Issue 7-9) Lisa Crispin has written "A look at Canoo WebTest".

The table of contents links to the print content. A related interview of Marc and me is available online.

In iX Magazine(12/2005) (German)

Marc Guillemot and Benjamin Feiermann have written "Webanwendungen automatisch testen mit Webtest". It's a 4 pages introduction to webtest for "beginners" (no advanced topics or "insider tips" and therefore probably not interesting for experienced webtest users).

Canoo WebTest Jobs

Canoo WebTest skills add to your resume.

The job portal http://www.dice.com currently list two items when searching for 'canoo webtest'.

The advertised jobs explicitly mention Canoo WebTest skills as raising your employment chances.

Mittie

Mastek GUI contribution

The Component Engineering Group at Mastek has contributed a GUI For Recording, Editing and Viewing Reports.

I would like to give a big THANK YOU to Mastek for this generous contribution and to nimesh_muley and his teammates in particular.

Please check out this contribution and provide feedback on the Canoo Mailinglist.

Mittie