---
title: "Automating web tests with FitNesse and Selenium"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2007/5/30/automating-web-tests-with-fitnesse-and-selenium.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2007/5/30/automating-web-tests-with-fitnesse-and-selenium.html"
published: "2007-05-30T03:36:08"
updated: "2007-05-30T03:36:08"
tags: ["Agile", "Art Of Unit Testing"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "Here's a nice article details to little known tools in the \"mainstream\" developer community: Selenium, a browser and web automation framework, and Fitnesse, an acceptance and integration automation solution that uses a…"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
---

# Automating web tests with FitNesse and Selenium

By Roy Osherove May 30, 2007 In [Agile](https://osherove.com/blog/category/agile), [Art Of Unit Testing](https://osherove.com/blog/category/art-of-unit-testing)

**Historical article** · Originally published May 30, 2007; technical details may be outdated.

[Here's a nice article](http://gojko.net/2007/05/20/automating-web-tests-with-fitnesse-and-selenium) details to little known tools in the "mainstream" developer community: Selenium, a browser and web automation framework, and Fitnesse, an acceptance and integration automation solution that uses a Wiki style for managing the tests and data.

To be clear, these are pure integration tests, and not unit tests. They might be using some sort of a unit test framework to do their bidding, but they are testing integrated parts of a full running application, they require configuration of some sort, they take much longer to run, and basically do not meet the the idea of unit tests.

 \[via [.NET Kicks](http://www.dotnetkicks.com/unittesting/Automating_web_tests_with_FitNesse_and_Selenium)\]

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## About the author

**Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery.

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- [RobotPaper](https://robotpaper.ai/): This blog: AI patterns and anti-patterns, AI and coding agents, and engineering leadership.
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- [The Art of Unit Testing](https://www.artofunittesting.com): The Art of Unit Testing, 3rd Edition (Manning): readable, maintainable, trustworthy unit tests, plus TDD workshops in C#, JavaScript, Java and Kotlin.
- [5whys.com](https://www.5whys.com): Roy's writing on software team leadership: self-organizing teams, surviving chaos, learning mode and the Elastic Leadership model.
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Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page). License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/