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Ajax testing
Should array indices start at 0 or 1?
My compromise of 0.5 was rejected without,
I thought, proper consideration.
—Stan Kelly-Bootle
This chapter covers
Introducing Ajax testing
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Testing the Ajax stack
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Testing JavaScript
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Testing server services
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Testing Google Web Toolkit
applications
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This chapter covers testing Ajax applications. It's a continuation of chapter 12,
which discusses presentation-layer testing in general and introduces two of the
libraries and tools used in this chapter: HtmlUnit and Selenium. As in the previous
chapter, our goal is finding bugs in the graphical user interface of an application.
We describe a divide-and-conquer approach by breaking up tests into three groups:
functional testing, testing client-side scripts, and testing server services. We present
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