2 Mar
2006
2 Mar
'06
9:46 a.m.
As for automated tests, it is easy to write tests for local tools or static forms, but for external sites that use dynamic features like javascript or DHTML it can be very tedious to analyze the content of each page and manually trigger the proper page updates, so that the pages look and contain the same things as when using the browser.
Can't we mock it though? Run the tool but don't actually have it send anything to ENCODE db, instead intercept what would be sent and make sure it looks good, then send back a pre-canned response.