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Writing and running functional tests for Flash with Selenium RC

Functional tests are intended to help you verify that a system, as a whole, functions as intended. Such tests verify that everything is wired together correctly. Selenium is an open-source testing tool for web applications. Selenium tests run directly in the web browser itself, mimicking what real users do. Furthermore, it supports a large variety of browsers and platforms. It is especially useful for executing tests to verify web application functionality and user acceptance. We used Selenium in our last project to verify that a web application (which contains one or more Flash components) worked the way we wanted.

Even though Selenium has been widely used for testing web applications, we did not find any resources linking Selenium to Flash or Flex when we started developing and testing Flash applications ourselves. After some work, however, we had a working solution for Selenium to test a deployed Flash application. This article describes how you can use the Selenium web testing tool to create and run functional tests for Flash and Flex web applications.

Requirements

In order to make the most of this article, you need the following software:

Selenium Remote Control

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FlashSelenium

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Prerequisite knowledge

You should have a good understanding of ActionScript 3.0 as well as the JUnit unit testing framework.

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