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- Subject: Re: [SLUG] "Right" way to kill firefox from a script?
- From: "Amos Shapira" <amos.shapira@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 14:24:36 +1000
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2008/8/1 Martin Barry <marty@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> $quoted_author = "Amos Shapira" ;
>>
>> We have a test script which runx Firefox to visit a web site and after
>> a few seconds it stops it.
>
> My first thought was "Why use a GUI app to test something automated?"...
Because it has to run all sorts of JavaScript, Flash, pull images etc.
and generally do what a browser does as part of the test.
We need a real browser (multiple browsers types and versions from
multiple platforms, actually) to access that web page, "wget" and
friends won't cut it.
> Surely there are more elegant ways to achieve what you need...
I'd be glad to hear about it.
Thanks,
--Amos
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