Webinject

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What is WebInject?

WebInject is a free tool for automated testing of web applications and web services. It can be used to test individual system components that have HTTP interfaces (JSP, ASP, CGI, PHP, AJAX, Servlets, HTML Forms, XML/SOAP Web Services, REST, etc), and can be used as a test harness to create a suite of [HTTP level] automated functional, acceptance, and regression tests. A test harness allows you to run many test cases and collect/report your results. WebInject offers real-time results display and may also be used for monitoring system response times.

WebInject can be used as a complete test framework that is controlled by the WebInject User Interface (GUI). Optionally, it can be used as a standalone test runner (text/console application) which can be integrated and called from other test frameworks or applications.

Installation

We need to install a few prerequisite Perl modules for the test runner:

Module::Install Module::Install::ReadmeFromPod LWP::Protocol::https XML::Simple XML::Parser

These can either be installed via CPAN or from your favourite package manager. For example, on Fedora Linux:

dnf install perl-Module-Install perl-Module-Install-ReadmeFromPod
perl-libwww-perl perl-LWP-Protocol-https perl-XML-Simple
perl-XML-Parser

For Debian based systems:

apt install libmodule-install-perl libmodule-install-readmefrompod-perl
libwww-perl liblwp-protocol-https-perl libxml-simple-perl
libxml-parser-perl

With those in place, the test runner can be installed:

cd Webinject perl Makefile.PL make sudo make install