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You're reading from Selenium Testing Tools Cookbook Unlock the full potential of Selenium WebDriver to test your web applications in a wide range of situations. The countless recipes and code examples provided ease the learning curve and provide insights into virtually every eventuality.

Product type Paperback

Published in Nov 2012

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781849515740

Length 326 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Selenium

Concepts

Application Testing

Author (1):

UNMESH GUNDECHA

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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Selenium Testing Tools Cookbook

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

www.PacktPub.com

Preface

1. Locating Elements FREE CHAPTER

2. Working with Selenium API

3. Controlling the Test Flow

4. Data-driven Testing

5. Using the Page Object Model

6. Extending Selenium

7. Testing on Mobile Browsers

8. Client-side Performance Testing

9. Testing HTML5 Web Applications

10. Recording Videos of Tests

11. Behavior-driven Development

Index

Using HttpWatch for measuring performance

HttpWatch is another famous tool for watching the client-side performance of a web application with Internet Explorer and Firefox. Similar to dynaTrace, HttpWatch provides various metrics to analyze problems in JavaScript, network requests, page resources, and page load performance. It offers API support for monitoring and capturing the log files in C#, Ruby, JavaScript, and so on.

In this recipe, we will set up HttpWatch to capture the various performance metrics using a Selenium WebDriver test.

Getting ready

For this recipe, we will need to download and install HttpWatch Basic Edition from http://www.httpwatch.com/.

You may also download and install the Professional edition for more features.

During installation, the dynaTrace AJAX Edition will automatically install the plugins in Internet Explorer and Firefox. After completing the installation, please make sure that these plugins are enabled in the browser.

How to do it...

Before using HttpWatch in...

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