Hello all,

I just startet to use Canoo WebTest to functionally test some web applications. I did use the auto generated tests in a grails project beforehand.

I understand, that I can use groovy scripts in groovy steps from an xml test definition like explained here: http://webtest.canoo.com/webtest/manual/groovy.html

However I find the approach, grails generated, i.e. test classes extending grails.util.WebTest very elegant.

Is there a chance to use grails.util.WebTest outside of a grails project? How would I do that?

Here is the minimal example I use for now, wich runs but feels "clumsy" in comparison:

build.xml: /-- <project name="BI IDEA Use Case Tests"> <property name="webtest.resultpath" value="webtest-results" /> <property name="webtest.resultfile" value="results.xml"/> <property name="webtest.resultfile.html" value="results.html"/> <property environment="env"/> <property name="env.WEBTEST_HOME" location="/opt/webtest"/>

<property name="webtest.home" location="${env.WEBTEST_HOME}"/> <property name="testInWork" value="main"/>

<description> <![CDATA[ Invoke the webtest scripts to invoke functional webtests on the Interface ]]> </description> <import file="${webtest.home}/lib/useWebTest.xml" />

</project> \--

main.xml: /-- ... <project name="testMe" basedir="." default="main"> <property environment="env" /> <import file="${env.WEBTEST_HOME}/lib/taskdef.xml" />

<target name="main">

<webtest name="googletest"> &config; <steps> <groovy replaceProperties="false" file="GoogleStep.groovy" /> </steps> </webtest> </target>

</project>

GoogleStep.groovy: /-- def ant = new AntBuilder() def webtest_home = "/opt/webtest"

ant.taskdef(resource:'webtest.taskdef'){ classpath(){ pathelement(location:"$webtest_home/lib") fileset(dir:"$webtest_home/lib", includes:"**/*.jar") } }

ant.webtest(name:'Test Google with Groovy, AntBuilder and WebTest'){ steps(){ invoke(url:'http://www.google.com') verifyTitle(text:'Google') setInputField(name:'q', value:'Groovy') clickButton(name:'btnG') verifyXPath(xpath:"//a[@href='http://groovy.codehaus.org/']") } } \--

Any thoughts? -- André Schaefer

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