[Jon Nermut]

With the Web 2.0 dom inspector, you have the beginnings of a system to produce functional tests for web apps.
Canoo web test is a nice project that wraps HtmlUnit in ant tags, so you can write html tests in xml.
If you could right click on a DOM element, and say “Add assertion to web test” and this automagically created a Canoo web test tag in your current test file, this would be a very powerful system, as the biggest pain in creating tests in wading through the source of html files to find the element you are interested in testing.
I guess that there would have to be a lot of magic going on here, and maybe the canoo licence might prevent redistribution?

An idea anyway.

Cheers,

Jon

[Riyad Kalla]

Jon,
Thank you for the suggestion we’ll certainly consider this.

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