Automating browser environments
Having introduced some motivating use cases, we now turn to the nuts and bolts of automating our test infrastructure. We will cover the following techniques for programmatically driving our Backbone.js tests:
- Remote controlling tests in a real web browser
- Running tests in a browser simulation library
- Executing tests in a headless web browser environment
- Combining the first three approaches
Remote controlled web browsers
The most comprehensive automation technique is to remotely control a web browser. Remote control means that a program does what a human can do using a real web browser—opening the browser to a given page, clicking on links, filling in inputs, and so on.
One of the most popular remote control frameworks ...
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