In search of testing automation tool

[Matthew]

We've used Selenium for running test scripts against our web applications to quickly generate test cases but we have found it won't work with Profound. Looking for any suggestions as to applications that can serve the same purpose.

[David]

I believe Selenium can be made to work, but it would take a bit of 'doing'. Profound UI doesn't work on traditional browser page reloads, but rather with Ajax calls.

So, after you 'submit' a screen, it doesn't automatically know when it's ready for the next action.

But, I believe that Selenium has the capability to work around this by taking some of the advanced options to look at JavaScript values or the show/hide state of certain elements, and something could probably be arranged to make it work.

That said, we don't have an 'official' methodology for it...

If you don't need to simulate the browser end of it (just what happens on the server), then JMeter can work well. This automates actions just by sending network requests without a browser. You can capture network requests while running some test actions and then plug them into JMeter.