Testing web apps with Selenium

[eluser]Dam1an[/eluser]
Yeah for someone with the 8 Ps in their sig, you sure break them a lot
I was actually listenting to a podcast on StackOverflow earlier today and they where discussing testing/code coverage, and the end verdict was that although it would be nice to test 100%, it's not really an efficient thing to do, as a lot of that time would be better spent doing something else, especially as some of the stuff you add is a few lines of code, but several times that much in terms of testing...

What I do is have 'smoke tests', these aim to test differant parts of the site, so if they all pass, I can be confident everything works. So if I have 10 very similar functions, I would just test 1, if that fails, I would look into all 10 a bit more, if that passes, I'm pretty confident they all work