Selenium tests against AJAX applications
Web applications today are being designed in such a way that they appear the same as desktop applications. Web developers are accomplishing this by using AJAX within their web applications. AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript And XML) relies on JavaScript creating asynchronous calls and then returning XML with the data that the user or application requires to carry on. AJAX does not rely on XML anymore, as more and more people move over to JSON (JavaScript Object Notation), which is more lightweight in the way it transfers the data. It does not rely on the extra overhead of opening and closing tags that is needed to create valid XML.
Working on pages with AJAX
In our example, we will click on a link and then assert ...
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