GWT, SmartGWT and Testing

Automated testing is very useful, and would be even more useful, if it was much more easy. It seems though that the testing frameworks for web application as still not yet part of the tool box of web application developpers.

I hope this will help me to implement automated testing of web application.

I did some research on testing of GWT. It seems that it is possible to use selenium for GWT and for smart gwt. I must really get to this quickly.

Google Web Toolkit

The Google Web Toolkit (GWT) is a framework used to develop Webapplications. It works by transforming the Java in Javascript. Moreover, GWT has the following additional features:

1. Interfaces for RPC Calls
2. Integration with JUnit
3. Lots of Widgets for GUI Design (similar to Swing in the way of its use

It seems that GWT uses mainly Java to develop the application and theat therefore the typical Java development tools can be reused for the purpose