Push-To-Test

I went to a four hour presentation on Push-To-Test yesterday. It seems pretty nifty, the idea of wrapping an automated testing framework around a bunch of open source projects such as Selenium, soapUI and other goodies.

The presentation was a little hectic but it got the general idea across. I would have preferred to get to the meat of the subject quicker but the presenter did have 20 people to deal with and we had to go with the common denominator. No biggie.

The only thing that I wasn't too big was the idea of converting the Selenium tests for web tests from XUL into Java or Jython for more programmable control. After the conversion there is no going back to the original SeleniumIDE tool from what I saw. But, I guess that isn't much different from what I've done with LoadRunner and VSTS a bajillion times before when I had a bunch of custom code from the tree view into code. They did have an IDE so it's not too bad in hind site. I didn't get a chance to play around with the IDE to see how it compares to Eclipse or Visual Studio.

But, it is free for download to use the unsupported version, so I say thumbs up.

The idea of using Selenium for the web tests is pretty nifty as you get good control with AJAX controls that are a bit of a pain to control in HTTP Virtual user. I hadn't thought of doing that in the past.

I was told that transactions and nested transactions were supported but didn't get a chance to see them in action.