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    <p>In our QA team, we run a suite of automated tests on every commit the developers do. Since there are quite a few such commits daily and no developer wants to wait more than a few minutes to get feedback we're limited to 5 minutes of testing. In these 5 minutes we want to run as many tests as possible. </p> <p>We've found that selenium tests are the best for our needs: mostly because they're reliable. If a selenium test reports a JS error you're 95% sure it's a real error. (This is an extremely important property as we've learned from our experience using HTMLUnit). However, running selenium tests is slow and heavy. (We maintain a small cpu farm so we can run many selenium servers and many scripts asynchronously).</p> <p>Recently we've proposed a new approach - use selenium only for the places where you REALLY need it: popups, ajax, JS in general,.. In other places use a "Textual Browser". For example, if you want to check that the following link "works":</p> <pre><code>&lt;a href='/somewhere'&gt; link &lt;/a&gt; </code></pre> <p>You don't really need selenium. You can perform a GET request to the page and then use regex/parse the page and use xpath/.. Bottom line - <strong>you don't need a JS engine</strong>. Clearly this is a much lighter and faster test.</p> <p>We've had much success with this approach and we ran into the following links:</p> <pre><code>&lt;a href='/somewhere-1' onclick="foo()" &gt; link 1 &lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href='/somewhere-2' onclick="foo()" &gt; link 2 &lt;/a&gt; ... many more such links ... </code></pre> <p>So in this case, you don't really have to run a selenium script that pressed each and every link. Just click on one of them using selenium (so you test the functionality of the JS function <code>foo()</code>) and then use the textual browser to verify the <code>href</code>s of the other links.</p> <p>My question is where do you think we should draw the line? and I'd be happy to hear your opinions - are there "Textual Browser" tools out there (we haven't worked with WebDriver)?</p>
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