Comments on: FAQ: How do you compare to Selenium? http://blog.browsermob.com/2008/12/faq-how-do-you-compare-to-selenium/ All about browsers, performance testing, and load testing Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:39:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Patrick Lightbody http://blog.browsermob.com/2008/12/faq-how-do-you-compare-to-selenium/comment-page-1/#comment-2864 Patrick Lightbody Mon, 20 Sep 2010 02:33:17 +0000 http://blog.browsermob.com/2008/12/faq-how-do-you-compare-to-selenium/#comment-2864 John, We didn't respond to nik's comment because we don't really understand what he's asking. Yes, we do use a massive amount of hardware, and yes that is what differentiates us. We should have added a comment here back when he made his comment, but I believe we also received an email from him and continued the conversation there. As for HtmlUnit, it is in our roadmap: we anticipate adding it this year. It will definitely bring the price down somewhere between our RBU and VU services. However, it will not really offer the same functionality as the RBU/Selenium-based service. For example, HtmlUnit doesn't do concurrent threads for HTTP requests, it doesn't allow for screenshots/movies, it doesn't fully parse CSS and pull down all objects, and the JavaScript emulation doesn't always work perfectly. But it is a pretty good alternative and we are excited to support it soon! Patrick Founder, BrowserMob John,
We didn’t respond to nik’s comment because we don’t really understand what he’s asking. Yes, we do use a massive amount of hardware, and yes that is what differentiates us. We should have added a comment here back when he made his comment, but I believe we also received an email from him and continued the conversation there.

As for HtmlUnit, it is in our roadmap: we anticipate adding it this year. It will definitely bring the price down somewhere between our RBU and VU services. However, it will not really offer the same functionality as the RBU/Selenium-based service. For example, HtmlUnit doesn’t do concurrent threads for HTTP requests, it doesn’t allow for screenshots/movies, it doesn’t fully parse CSS and pull down all objects, and the JavaScript emulation doesn’t always work perfectly. But it is a pretty good alternative and we are excited to support it soon!

Patrick
Founder, BrowserMob

]]> By: John Lockhart http://blog.browsermob.com/2008/12/faq-how-do-you-compare-to-selenium/comment-page-1/#comment-2863 John Lockhart Mon, 20 Sep 2010 02:26:11 +0000 http://blog.browsermob.com/2008/12/faq-how-do-you-compare-to-selenium/#comment-2863 Hi, I'm trying to assess browsermob and it looks great. I love the idea of load tests based on selenium scripts but one concern and one question: Concern: How come no reply to the question above from nik posted 4 months ago? Question: Why don't you offer htmlunit as another option which would reduce the cost cf firefox and provide full equivalent functionality (at least in theory) with the javascript support from rhino turned on. Does selenium RC which I guess you use not work with HTMLUnit/Rhino? thanks and regards, John Hi, I’m trying to assess browsermob and it looks great. I love the idea of load tests based on selenium scripts but one concern and one question:

Concern: How come no reply to the question above from nik posted 4 months ago?

Question: Why don’t you offer htmlunit as another option which would reduce the cost cf firefox and provide full equivalent functionality (at least in theory) with the javascript support from rhino turned on. Does selenium RC which I guess you use not work with HTMLUnit/Rhino?

thanks and regards,
John

]]> By: nik http://blog.browsermob.com/2008/12/faq-how-do-you-compare-to-selenium/comment-page-1/#comment-158 nik Wed, 13 May 2009 10:55:49 +0000 http://blog.browsermob.com/2008/12/faq-how-do-you-compare-to-selenium/#comment-158 Selenium uses real browsers, meaning you need a ton of hardware to simulate a load test. is this not a comfusing thing when Browsermob claims is using real browsers as it main benefit over the rest of apps doing the same?. Selenium uses real browsers, meaning you need a ton of hardware to simulate a load test.

is this not a comfusing thing when Browsermob claims is using real browsers as it main benefit over the rest of apps doing the same?.

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