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US Patent 8,392,890 -- Method and System for Testing Websites -- 5 March 2013
What is claimed is:
1. A non-transitory computer readable medium including at least computer program code for providing a test enabled web browser, said computer readable medium comprising: computer program code for providing web browsing capabilities; and computer program code for testing capabilities of a website hosted by a server and accessible to a computer via a network, wherein the computer program code for testing capabilities of the website includes at least computer program code configured to receive a synchronization check from a user using the test enabled web browser, to insert the synchronization check into a test script for testing at least one webpage of the website, the test script being separate from the at least one webpage being tested, the at least one webpage being tested including AJAX programming, and to automatically synchronize playback of the test script using at least the synchronization check to maintain the test enabled browser's state with respect to the AJAX programming by means of the synchronization check in the test script to a Document Object Model (DOM) associated with the at least one webpage of the website, wherein the synchronization check in the test script and web browsing activities provided by the web browsing capabilities are able to separately access the DOM associated with the at least one webpage of the website, and wherein the synchronization check is inserted into the test script as at least one command, and the at least one command operates, when executed, to: find a current index of at least one DOM element of the at least one webpage based on a specified property name and/or property value; and (i) submit a named event to the at least one DOM element of the at least one webpage having the current index, or (ii) insert or verify a value in the at least one DOM element of the at least one webpage having the current index.
2. A non-transitory computer readable medium as recited in claim 1, wherein the test script playback is synchronized using the at least one command that determines whether a DOM element exists in the at least one webpage of the website.3. A non-transitory computer readable medium as recited in claim 1, wherein the test script playback is synchronized using at the at least one command that determines whether a DOM element has a particular defined property.
4. A non-transitory computer readable medium as recited in claim 1, wherein the test script playback is synchronized using the at least one command that determines whether a DOM element has a property with a particular value.
5. A non-transitory computer readable medium as recited in claim 1, wherein the test script playback is synchronized using one or more commands operating based on whether a combination of one or more DOM elements, DOM element properties, or DOM element property values have specified values.
6. A non-transitory computer readable medium including at least computer program code for providing a test enabled web browser, said computer readable medium comprising: computer program code for providing web browsing capabilities; and computer program code for testing capabilities of a website hosted by a server and accessible to the computer via a network, wherein the computer program code for testing capabilities of the website provides playback of one or more test scripts, the one or more test scripts being separate from the website, wherein the computer program code for testing capabilities is configured to keep track of named DOM element property values within a webpage of the website to provide support for playback of one or more test scripts that were recorded from and/or are played back via the test enabled web browser, wherein the use of the named DOM element property values provides support for synchronizing playback of the one or more test scripts and allows the computer program code for testing capabilities of the website of the test enabled web browser to compensate for at least a portion of the webpage being dynamically generated by AJAX programming, and wherein at least one command is provided in the one or more test scripts, and the at least one command operates, when performed, to: find a current index of at least one DOM element of the webpage based on a specified property name and/or property value; and (i) submit a named event to the at least one DOM element of the webpage having the current index, or (ii) insert or verify a value in the at least one DOM element of the webpage having the current index.
7. A non-transitory computer readable storage device storing components that when executed on a computing device provide an application program for testing a website hosted by a remote server, the website having at least one webpage, and the webpage of the website being presented by browsing via the computing device, said computer readable storage device comprising: a script component, executed by the computing device, to record at least one test script that reproduces and times user actions and responses; a script playback component, executed by the computing device, to playback the at least one test script; a page evaluation component, executed by the computing device, to read, and analyze the contents of webpage components, including DOM elements and other objects; and a synchronization component, operating in parallel with browsing the webpage via the the computing device, to automatically synchronize playback of the at least one test script by said script playback component to maintain browser state while testing the webpage including AJAX programming through use of one or more user-provided checks of the current Document Object Model (DOM) contents provided in the at least one test script such that the playback of the at least one test script is able to be synchronized even though the webpage includes the AJAX programming, wherein the one or more user-provided checks provided in the at least one test script include at least one command, and the at least one command operates, when executed, to: find a current index of at least one DOM element of the webpage based on a specified property name and/or property value; and (i) submit a named event to the at least one DOM element of the webpage having the current index, or (ii) insert or verify a value in the at least one DOM element of the webpage having the current index.
8. A computer readable storage device as recited in claim 7, wherein said script playback is configured to adapt playback of the at least one test script to account for nearly correct matches between recorded facts and actual page properties.9. A non-transitory computer readable storage device as recited in claim 7, wherein said test enabled web browser comprises a graphical user interface to provide user access to at least said browsing components and said script component.
10. A computer readable storage device as recited in claim 7, wherein synchronization processing by said synchronization component is performed in a separate thread from other threads processing of said test enabled web browser.
11. A non-transitory computer readable medium including at least computer program code stored therein and operable by a computer to test one or more webpages of a website, the computer readable medium comprising: computer program code for accessing at least one webpage of the one or more webpages of the website so as to provide browser activities; computer program code for programmatically manipulating a test script in accordance with user input, the test script being separate from the one or more webpages of the website; and computer program code for performing the manipulated test script to perform a test on the at least one webpage of the website to be tested, wherein the computer program code for programmatically manipulating the test script facilitates insertion of at least one synchronization check into the test script so that the at least one synchronization check can enable the manipulated test script to synchronize with the at least one webpage including AJAX programming, wherein the at least one webpage has a Document Object Model (DOM) associated therewith, wherein the at least one synchronization check inserted into the test script is operable to interact with at least one DOM element of the DOM in parallel with access to the DOM by the browser activities, and wherein the at least one synchronization check is inserted into the test script as at least one command, and the at least one command operates, when executed, to: find a current index of at least one DOM element of a webpage of the website based on a specified property name and/or property value; and (i) submit a named event to the at least one DOM element of the webpage having the current index, or (ii) insert or verify a value in the at least one DOM element of the webpage having the current index.
16. A non-transitory computer readable medium as recited in claim 11, wherein the at least one synchronization check is directed by the user input received from a user.17. A non-transitory computer readable medium as recited in claim 11, wherein the test is a playback test.
18. A non-transitory computer readable medium as recited in claim 11, wherein the one or more selections with respect to the graphical user interface select one or more commands that cause the test script to be modified to include the at least one synchronization check.
19. A non-transitory computer readable medium as recited in claim 18, wherein prior to the selections with respect to the graphical user interface, a selection of an element of the webpage being tested has been received, and wherein the at least one synchronization check is with respect to at least the element.20. A non-transitory computer readable medium as recited in claim 11, wherein the non-transitory computer readable medium comprises: computer program code for receiving or recording the test script for testing the at least one webpage of the website.
21. A non-transitory computer readable medium as recited in claim 11, wherein the computer program code for performing the manipulated test script performs the test script on the at least one webpage of the website, including performing the at least one synchronization check.
22. A non-transitory computer readable medium as recited in claim 11, wherein the synchronization check is performed repeatedly until the at least one synchronization check is satisfied.
23. A non-transitory computer readable medium as recited in claim 11, wherein the at least one synchronization check determines whether a DOM property of the at least one DOM element has a particular value.
24. A non-transitory computer readable medium as recited in claim 23, wherein the performing of the manipulated test script of the test script awaits the DOM property having have the particular value.25. A non-transitory computer readable medium as recited in claim 11, wherein the at least one synchronization check determines whether a DOM property of the at least one DOM element exists.
12. A non-transitory computer readable medium including at least computer program code stored therein and operable by a computer program code stored therein and operable by a computer to test one or more webpages of a website, the computer readable medium comprising: computer program code for accessing at least one webpage of the one or more webpages of the website so as to provide browser activities; computer program code for programmatically manipulating a test script in accordance with user input, the test script being separate from the one or more webpages of the website; and computer program code for performing the manipulated test script to perform a test on the at least one webpage of the website to be tested, wherein the computer program code for programmatically manipulating the test script facilitates insertion of at least one synchronization check into the test script so that the at least one synchronization check can enable the manipulated test script to synchronize with the at least one webpage including AJAX programming, wherein the at least one webpage has a Document Object Model (DOM) associated therewith, wherein the at least one synchronization check inserted into the test script is operable to interact with at least one DOM element of the DOM in parallel with access to the DOM by the browser activities, and wherein the computer program code for programmatically manipulating the test script comprises computer program code for inserting at least one command into the test script, the at least one command pertaining to at least a portion of the at least one synchronization check, and operates to perform the following acts: finding a current index of at least one DOM element based on specified property names and/or property values; moving the current index up or down on the page, by specifying a number of steps up and down on the webpage; and submitting a named event to the current index of the at least one DOM element of the webpage, and/or inserting values of properties of the current index of the at least one DOM element of the webpage.
13. A non-transitory computer readable medium as recited in claim 12, wherein the one or more acts are programmatically performed.14. A non-transitory computer readable medium as recited in claim 12, wherein the named event includes a submit event command.
15. A non-transitory computer readable medium as recited in claim 12, wherein the named event includes a browser navigation to a link specified at the current index of the DOM element of the page.
(NOTE: Claims 16-25 are above, below the independent claim on which they depend.)
