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JExplorer is a library that provides developers with an easy-to-use ability to integrate Microsoft Internet Explorer into Swing applications.

Standard version: the lightweight version containing only necessary JExplorer API. Does not even require JNIWrapper.

Professional version: useful for those who need to use JNIWrapper functionality in addition to JExplorer, who require a tight integration with MSHTML and DOM functionality, and intend to use low-level IE API.

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InCisif.net 1.1 is an automation tool designed to implement client side functional testing of web applications under Internet Explorer 6.x, using the C# or VB.NET language. It allows you to record the user interactions and create new test applications with the Assistant Program, thenedit, execute and debug your tests implemented in a .NET Windows Applications using the Visual Studio IDE.

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testifIE is an open-source based UI test automation offering for Microsoft Internet Explorer, offering record-and-playback functionality. Test cases can be recorded using testifIERecorder, or manually developed in simple XML, or in Java.

Testcase operations include execution of user actions, page state/element validation, and execution of plug-n-play custom hooks/code.

The testifIE runtime is integrated with junit, Apache Ant, and automates IE using Jiffie and JaCoB projects.

testifIE is trivial to install, easy to operate, and test cases are simple to maintain, thereby significantly reducing the total cost of Internet Explorer-based UI test automation.
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Watij is a pure Java API created to allow for the automation of web applications. Based on the simplicity of Watir and enhanced by the power of Java, Watij automates functional testing of web applications through a real browser. Currently Watij supports automating Internet Explorer on Windows only. Future plans are in place to support others like Mozilla.
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Inspired by Watir, WatiN is a feature rich and stable framework and consists of about 50 classes, wrapping all major HTML elements. With WatiN you can access elements in the IE window and in modal and modeless HTML dialogs. WatiN handles alert windows, supports a basic but extensible logging mechanism and a great deal of the code is covered by unit tests.
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Records and replays any combination of browsing, form filling, clicking and information gathering into macros.

In the Scripting Edition, iMacros can be interfaced with the well-documented Windows Scripting Host, Visual Basic or any other Windows programming language.

(Commercial tool, demo available)
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A testing framework which allows tests written in Python to test Javascript code that runs in the IE browser on Win32.
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IETest is a .NET library for testing web sites through Microsoft Internet Explorer. It enables you to automate Internet Explorer to the point where you can perform automated testing without any human attention required.
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The program creates an automation API for any Web application which uses HTML and DHTML and works with Microsoft Internet Explorer. The Web application becomes programmatically accessible from any .NET language.

SWExplorerAutomation API provides access to Web application controls and content. The API is generated using SWExplorerAutomation Visual Designer. SWExplorerAutomation Visual Designer helps create programmable objects from Web page content.

For Internet Explorer.
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Ecyware GreenBlue Inspector is an integrated web analyzer environment that offers multiples ways to test your web applications. You can analyze on the run or record a session for deeper analysis coverage.

For Internet Explorer.

NOTE: if the website is down, the EcyWare tool may be downloaded here
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JStudio SiteWalker is a new Record & Replay tool to automate websites/ webapplications for functional and regression tests and provides using databases and Excel for data driven tests. Most scenarios can be automated by quick validation without programming and makes creating test as easy as it can be. For professional testers each element of web documents can be accessed by JavaScript.

Our aim is to enable suitable test automation also for projects where using expensive tools is not profitable or takes to much time to become really acquainted with (and then the highend features often are not used..). It helps you keeping focus identifying the critical parts of a webapplication – and not the tool.
Released as shareware JStudio SiteWalker offers test automation capabilities for web projects also for small companies or many members of test teams to increase test coverage and software quality for web projects.

More information and 60-days unlimited trial download on our homepage.
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Pamie allows you to control an instance of Internet Explorer and access its methods though OLE automation. You can write simple or complex scripts which allows you to automate Internet Explorer. You can easily drive them using either MS Excel, MS Access, or Oracle.

A port of Samie (Perl) in Python.
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WATIR is based on three earlier versions of test tools in the WTR project. They all drive Internet Explorer (IE) using Ruby, utilizing Ruby’s support for COM and IE’s extensive COM interface to the the document object model (DOM).

Work in progress, to be released by the WTR project.
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S.A.M. for I.E. is a Perl module (SAM.pm) that allows a user to automate Internet Explorer. This free tool is designed for quality assurance engineers that need to run automated tests for their browser applications (Windows only).
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