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AutAT

-- An Eclipse Plugin for Automatic Acceptance Testing of Web Applications

AutAT

• is an open source Eclipse plugin,
• makes test driven development of web applications easier,
• contains a rich graphical editor for specifying how web-sites should function,
• is written using the Eclipse Graphical Editing Framework (GEF),
• converts a visual representation of web tests into executable tests, and
• executes the tests and gives you direct feedback.

AutAT is an own perspective in Eclipse and has its own project type and editors (click on image above for a large screenshot).

AutAT supports an extensible set of test engines. It is possible to execute tests directly in the Eclipse perspective, or export to an external file format for running by a separate process e.g. in a build script.

Test-frameworks currently supported

• Canoo WebTest (both export and direct running of tests in the AutAT perspective)
• Watir (export)
• jWebUnit (export to Java source code and FIT table format)

AutAT is the result of a master thesis at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in cooperation with Bekk Consulting AS, Norway.