Another topic we’ve been discussing lately is unit testing. This is especially tricky when you’re writing code that requires a specific context, but even if we had an automated test for all our common libraries - which assume no such context - I think it would help dramatically. Here’s a recent post on Ajaxian about Squish, but, as noted in the post, Selenium seems to be the current favorite for this kind of task…

Squish for Web is a GUI testing tool aiming to be well suited for testing Ajax GUIs (and has special
support for many frameworks such as Backbase, dojo, ICEFaces, qooxdoo, JackBe, etc.)

The Squish for Web edition enables testing HTML-based Web and Web 2.0 (Ajax) applications in different web browsers running on different platforms.

Squish for Web is, unlike many available web testing tools, not restricted to a single web browser or platform. Squish for Web supports running and recording tests for web applications in Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla, Firefox, Apple’s Safari and KDE’s Konqueror on Windows, Linux, Unix and Mac OS X.

Demos

Selenium seems to be the de facto standard these days, but we can always do with new tools to help us test. What do you use?