1. What is WebTst ?

WebTst is an open-source test management tool aimed at creating and managing user-centric testing. It's goals include:

Provide a tool to assist site developers in adding new features to their sites in a controled fashion.
Provide a tool to assist site testers in making sure of the proper functioning of the site.
Provide a tool to assist site maintainers in making sure of the proper functioning of the site.

These goals should be met with the following sub-objectives:

Provide minimal configuration/install requirements for people building the tests.
Provide the simplest possible learning curve for people building the tests.
Provide an extensible and configurable infrastructure to developers to allow them to either use prebuilt tests or to roll their own as needed.

2. The approach

The WebTst infrastructure is composed of a recorder component and a management/playback component.

Allows users to save all their actions via their usual client browser. Minimal configuration is required to allow this. Browsing experience remains unchanged as the user records the steps in the test. Infrastructure supports:

GET and POST methods.
Cookie handling.
HTTP authentication.

Allows users to tweak the recorded tests by allowing users to:
- Change recording items parameters. This includes test types, test parameters.
- Delete recording items.
- Associate owners to tests.
- Set tests to run daily for smoke tests.
Allows users to playback tests and check correct completion of all test items.
Allows users to delete tests.
Allows users to keep their own set of tests independent of other user's set of tests.
Allows developers to build upon the out-of-the-box set of tests by hooking up their own tests to the existing ones via a well defined interface.

3. The tests WebTst can perform

At this point WebTst can perform the following tests:

ACCESS - test succeeds on access to page.
CONTENT_PATTERN_FAIL - test fails if returned content matches a given regular expression
CONTENT_PATTERN_SUCCESS - test succeeds if returned content matches a given regular expression
PAGE_DIFF - test succeeds if stored returned result matches *exactly* the retrieved result
TIME - test succeeds if time to get a result back falls within a specified range
TITLE_SUCCESS - test succeeds if returned title matches a given regular expression
TITLE_FAIL - test fails if returned title matches a given regular expression
STATUS_SUCCESS - test succeeds if result status code matches regular expression
STATUS_FAIL - test fails if result status code matches regular expression
CUSTOM_TEST - roll your own. Provide a module to import, a sub procedure on that module and a parameter list. Tests follow a predefined interface both in input and output. Typically this includes access to response object, stored file, test parameters, username, test id. Results need to be returned as TestResult objects.

4. Who do I contact about WebTst ?

For WebTst information you can contact the author Francisco Assis Rosa.

5. A WebTst Presentation

You can learn a bit more about WebTst by reading the WebTst Presentation.

6. WebTst Manual

This is where you can find the WebTst Manual (Work in progress).

7. Request for Enhancements and Bug Reports for WebTst

If you are using WebTst and would like to see any bug fixed or any enhancement added to the system, please contribute by adding your request or bug report to WebTst's SourceForge Page. Your feedback is pretty important to WebTst. It is from use and specific requests that WebTst can grow to be a better (and hopefully more useful) piece of software.