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HttpUnit

website testing framework

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 30, 2026
Entity authorityQ5924576 ↗
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HttpUnit is an open-source software testing framework used to perform testing of web sites without the need for a web browser. HttpUnit supports HTML form submission, JavaScript, HTTP basic access authentication, automatic page redirection, and cookies. Written in Java, HttpUnit allows Java test code to process returned pages as text, XML DOM, or containers of forms, tables and links. HttpUnit is well suited to be used in combination with JUnit, in order to easily write tests that verify the proper behaviour of a web site.

The use of HttpUnit allows for automated testing of web applications and as a result, assists in regression testing.

See also

Software performance testing

Performance Engineering

Software

HtmlUnit

References

Further reading

Hightower, Richard; Warner Onstine; Paul Visan (2004). "16. Functional Testing with HttpUnit". Professional Java Tools for Extreme Programming: Ant, XDoclet, JUnit, Cactus, and Maven. John Wiley & Sons.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “HttpUnit” as website testing framework. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2004—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where HttpUnit, website and testing can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as website testing framework. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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This entry incorporates text from “HttpUnit” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.