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As I read on the net, Selenium tests should be written in the language of the App if this is possible. Our intranet-application is written in PHP. I was able to get Selenium working with PHPUnit but for me it looks like PHP is really uncommon. All books and most of the other stuff I found on the net are using Selenium together with Java.

So my questions are:

  • Does it really make sense to use Selenium with PHP or do I have to learn Jave or C#?
  • Where can I find the most information related to Selenium together with PHP? I understand the object oriented model of PHP but I'm not a very strong developer..
  • Is there something better than Selenium to automated testing a PHP application (GUI tests)?
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  • Yes, it definetely makes sense to use it in a language you are comfortable with.
  • PHPUnit has Selenium integration out of the box, did you look at the introduction in the PHPUnit manual?
  • Selenium has its quirks, but is widely used, so there is a lot of information about it available. There are other projects, though, like http://phantomjs.org/. If you are not comfortable with programming your tests in PHP, maybe you should consider using Selenium IDE, which has a GUI that helps you build your tests.
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  • Thanks for your feedback, this makes me more secure. I've to find the right solution for "my" company and I want to go in the right direction.
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    Commented Sep 26, 2013 at 11:12

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