IeUnit

Introduction

IeUnit is a framework to test logical behaviors of web pages. It helps users to create, organize and execute functional unit tests.

The architecture of IeUnit is based on the xUnit framework which has been adapted to various languages and platforms. IeUnit is implemented in JavaScript language and tailored to Windows platform. By leveraging services provided by Internet Explorer, its DHTML model and related COM technologies IeUnit offers a simple and efficient test framework.

The main characteristics of IeUnit are:

• It is easy to understand and to use for users familiar with Internet Explorer and its DHTML model.
• It is extensible in an objected oriented manner.
• It can work in a non-intrusive manner: You can test HTML pages without changing the page's source code.
• All software components required by IeUnit are freely available on Windows XP platform.

As representative examples consider the following use cases for IeUnit:

• You have developed a web page that allows user to logon with user name and password. You want to test that this page accepts user with valid password and rejects user with invalid password.
• You want to test that the response time for you web site for typical transactions are below 10 seconds.
• Smart bookmark: Some web portal offers service via stateful sessions. To use those services you normally have to manually logon to the site, then navigate to particular page. Using the IeUnit you can create a short script that reduces the whole navigation work to a single mouse click.

It should be noted that although IeUnit only works on Windows platform it can be used to test HTML pages coming from any web servers as long as those pages are coded according to HTML standard.

As mentioned above IeUnit is intended to test the logical behavior of web pages. It is not intended to test artistic aspects of web pages. Also, IeUnit currently doesn't support testing of features implemented with browser plug-ins (like Acrobat Reader, Shockwave etc.).