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<h2 id="benefits">Benefits</h2> <ul><li>Provides high-level API, taking away lower-level details away from the user.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a></li> <li>Compared to other WebDriver implementations, HtmlUnitDriver is the fastest to implement.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a></li> <li>It can be configured to simulate a specific browser.</li></ul> <h2 id="drawbacks">Drawbacks</h2> <ul><li>Element layout and rendering can not be tested.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a></li> <li>The JavaScript support is not complete, which is one of the areas of ongoing enhancements.</li></ul> <h2 id="used-technologies">Used technologies</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/W3C/lGWmhF6M">W3C</a> <a href="/facts/Document_Object_Model/GglE6jGx">DOM</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/HTTP/TWtvf7JD">HTTP</a> connection, using <a href="/facts/Apache_Software_Foundation/Xl9Tt9lE">Apache</a> <a href="https://hc.apache.org/">HttpComponents</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/JavaScript/XhhIIEsl">JavaScript</a>, using forked <a href="/facts/Rhino_(JavaScript_engine)/yNRIqPeo">Rhino</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/HTML/sSc3fT78">HTML</a> <a href="/facts/Parsing/nRKB01S3">Parsing</a>, <a href="http://nekohtml.sourceforge.net/">NekoHTML</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/CSS/tA90XBQo">CSS</a>: using <a href="http://cssparser.sourceforge.net/">CSS Parser</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/XPath/0eCtJoj7">XPath</a> support, using <a href="/facts/Xalan/z94u6mQb">Xalan</a></li></ul> <h2 id="libraries-using-htmlunit">Libraries using HtmlUnit</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Selenium_(software)/ebewybjJ">Selenium WebDriver</a></li> <li><a href="http://docs.spring.io/spring/docs/4.2.0.BUILD-SNAPSHOT/spring-framework-reference/htmlsingle/#spring-mvc-test-server-htmlunit">Spring MVC Test Framework</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Google_Web_Toolkit/k88Ns10e">Google Web Toolkit</a> <a href="http://www.gwtproject.org/doc/latest/DevGuideTestingHtmlUnit.html">tests</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101103111609/http://webtest.canoo.com/">WebTest</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.wetator.org/">Wetator</a></li></ul> <h2 id="see-also">See also</h2> <ul> <li>Free and open-source software portal</li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Headless_system/p6MAkkou">Headless system</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Web_scraping/5R4mf1bd">Web scraping</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Web_testing/GPggbW6W">Web testing</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/XUnit/X4xU8YIU">xUnit</a></li></ul> <h2 id="bibliography">Bibliography</h2> <ul><li>Beust, Cédric; Suleiman, Hani (15 October 2007). <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=bCvcMcLZwV4C&pg=PA339"><i></i>Next Generation Java Testing: TestNG and Advanced Concepts<i></i></a>. Pearson Education. <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 9780132702270. pp. 339– (subscription required)</li></ul> <h2 id="further-reading">Further reading</h2> <ul><li>Langer, A. <a href="http://pub-inf.tuwien.ac.at/showentry.php?ID=183673">"Extending HtmlUnit for test automatisation of Web applications using AJAX"</a>; Betreuer/in (nen): T. Grechenig, M. Bernhart; 183/1, 2009. (subscription required)</li> <li>Massol, Vincent; Timothy M. O'Brien (2005). <a href="https://archive.org/details/isbn_9788173667916_g4l8/page/83"><i>Maven: A Developer's Notebook</i></a>. O'Reilly Media. pp. <a href="https://archive.org/details/isbn_9788173667916_g4l8/page/83">83–86</a>. <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 978-0-596-55297-8.</li> <li>Tahchiev, Petar; Felipe Leme; Vincent Massol (2010). "12. Presentation Layer Testing". <i>JUnit in Action</i> (2 ed.). Manning. pp. 190–208. <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 978-1-935182-02-3.</li> <li>Harold, Elliotte Rusty (16 March 2012). <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=I2MKuc4iZDYC&pg=PA39"><i>Refactoring HTML</i></a>. Addison-Wesley Professional. <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 9780132701877.</li> <li>Tong, Ka Iok (23 April 2006). <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=p5x9-ZKQF0sC&pg=PA347"><i>Enjoying Web Development with Tapestry</i></a>. TipTec Development. <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 9781411649132.</li> <li>Schalk, Chris; Burns, Ed; Holmes, James (25 August 2006). <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=vwzk3dRtEhcC&q=%22HtmlUnit%22"><i>JavaServer Faces: The Complete Reference</i></a>. McGraw Hill Professional. <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 9780072262407. (subscription required)</li></ul> <h2 id="external-links">External links</h2> <ul><li><a href="https://htmlunit.sourceforge.io/">HtmlUnit</a></li> <li><a href="https://crawlbase.com/">Data Crawling and Scraping Platform</a></li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>"HtmlUnit Home". Sourceforge. Retrieved 30 August 2019. <a href="http://htmlunit.sourceforge.net/" target="_blank">http://htmlunit.sourceforge.net/</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>Beust, Cédric; Suleiman, Hani (15 October 2007). Next Generation Java Testing: TestNG and Advanced Concepts. Pearson Education. ISBN 9780132702270. Retrieved 30 August 2019. <a href="9780132702270" target="_blank">9780132702270</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>"HtmlUnit Driver". Github. Retrieved 30 August 2019. <a href="https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium/wiki/HtmlUnitDriver" target="_blank">https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium/wiki/HtmlUnitDriver</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>"Testing HTML Unit". GWT Project. Retrieved 30 August 2019. <a href="http://www.gwtproject.org/doc/latest/DevGuideTestingHtmlUnit.html" target="_blank">http://www.gwtproject.org/doc/latest/DevGuideTestingHtmlUnit.html</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>