One major pain at testing with culerity so far was a HtmlUnit bug that causes a ScriptException with PUT AJAX requests in jQuery. When you tried to test an update you got a "java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: The content cannot be null". Fortunately, this bug is fixed now. With latest HtmlUnit build culerity should run fine, and I tell you how.
I assume you have culerity installed already. If not, follow these instructions for testing Rails apps or these for testing Couchapps.
The application I'm writing depends heavily on key events. When you press enter in a specific text field, some other field opens, when you press tab, the text fields moves, etc. Of course I need to cover this in my cucumber integration tests. The Celerity API is a bit thin for this purpose: You can fire a, let's say, keydown event - but it doesn't pass through the specific key code.
Actually it's easy when you know how. You can execute any javascript directly on the Culerity RemoteBrowserProxy object. In order to fire a specific key event, you have to create a KeyboardEvent, initialize it with whatever you want, and dispatch it on the element.
Do you know what's behind these buzzwords: CouchDB / Couchapp / Sammy.js? Not really? Then please look at this article now: Sammy.js, CouchDB, and the new web architecture. The title says it all.
This setup happens to be the field of my diploma thesis, friendly sponsored and supported by Upstream. During the next months I'll develop a super duper thing with these technologies, and then I'll write 80 scientific pages about it. Yees, I'm not that much looking forward to the second part! Until then, I'm planning to semi-regularly blog about my findings.
I'm not allowed to share the code before I have the diploma in my hands. But, because my workmate Frank Proessdorf is so jealous of what I do, he and I started working on an app with a similar setup on our Upstream Research Fridays, to try things out. Here it is. Don't expect anything yet.
Today I'm going to tell you about some details of my testing setup.