Some people waste a lot of time testing Django applications only with Selenium. No, I don’t think that you should not use Selenium to test Django applications, I just wanna show that nobody needs to use Selenium for all webtests in Django.

Selenium drives a browser, so you can have true test results on navigation, but Selenium is not needed to test a page title or a response status code, for example. Selenium tests are powerful, but slow, so you can preserve them to use when you really need, and use more simple and fast tools to more simple and fast tests. Continue Reading »

Usually, in PHP applications, I don’t run acceptance tests. Lately, I have been thinking about how can I change this. I am a little experienced with others acceptance tests frameworks, for Python (Lettuce) and Ruby (Cucumber), but there is nothing like Lettuce and/or Cucumber in PHP world. So, what can I do? I can just use Lettuce or Cucumber to test any application, including PHP or Java application. In this blog post, I will show how to use behaviour-driven development (BDD) behind Lettuce to write acceptance tests for PHP applications. Continue Reading »

Freshen is an acceptance testing framework for Python, inspired by Cucumber and has the same goal: make BDD fun, but using Python instead of Ruby. Freshen uses the same syntax of Cucumber (Gherkin Syntax) and runs as a plugin of Nose, a powerful Python tool for using daily when you with TDD =) Continue Reading »