Emulating user browsing session for unit test

I'm searching for a framework that could allow me to emulate user browsing session.

A typical session looks like:

1. Browse to home page, get session
2. Be redirected to current page
3. Click on some link
4. Get connected
5. Submit a form
6. and co...

I would like to be able to define this session using API calls.

What frameworks would you recommend to be able to run this setup? It shoul开发者_高级运维d be run headless (not inside the browser), to be able to execute via Hudson.

Language does not matter, python of java would be great.

Thank you,

Maxim.

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There are multiple frameworks which can do this. Check out:

https://github.com/axefrog/XBrowser

http://htmlunit.sourceforge.net/

and the answer to this question: Alternative to HtmlUnit

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Have a look at htmlunit

Its even got decent javascript support, its Java based.

• Support for the HTTP and HTTPS protocols
• Support for cookies
• Ability to specify whether failing responses from the server should throw exceptions or should be returned as pages of the appropriate type (based on content type)
• Support for submit methods POST and GET (as well as HEAD, DELETE, ...)
• Ability to customize the request headers being sent to the server
• Support for HTML responses
  • Wrapper for HTML pages that provides easy access to all information contained inside them
  • Support for submitting forms
  • Support for clicking links
  • Support for walking the DOM model of the HTML document
• Proxy server support
• Support for basic and NTLM authentication
• Excellent JavaScript support

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take a look at Selenium WebDriver with Xvfb.

this post shows an example in Python:
'Python - Headless Selenium WebDriver Tests using PyVirtualDisplay'