Looking for the ways for test automation of web site

Question

We develop custom survey web sites and I am looking for a way to automate the pattern testing of these sites. Surveys often contain many complex rules and branches which are triggered on how items are responded too. All surveys are rigorously tested before being released to clients. This testing results in a lot of manual work. I would like to learn of some options I could use to automate these tests by responding to questions and verifying the results in the database. The survey sites are produced by an engine which creates and writes asp pages and receives the responses to process into a database. So the only way I can determine to test the site is to interact with the web pages themselves. I guess in a way I need to build some type of bot; I really don't know much about the design behind them.

Could someone please provide some suggestions on how to achieve this? Thank you for your time.

Brett

Answer 1

Check out selenium: http://selenium.openqa.org/

Also, check out the answers to this other question: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/484/how-do-you-test-layout-design-across-multiple-browsersoss