My company is deploying a web-based application and I'm on the team responsible for automating the GUI testing. We've looked at Rational and Silk, and one of our guys has fashioned a magic script-driven test harness (using VB of all things!) to control IE. It's pretty cool, but our application supports Netscape too.

I want to find a Perl solution, because that's the Lingua Franca of our department, so I ask the question here: can I control Netscape from the client side using Perl modules that already exist?

I've searched both the Monastery and CPAN, but I can only find things that deal with Mozilla and Netscape from a rather more peripheral view (i.e. manipulating Bookmarks and history lists, etc). I've used LWP and all sorts of HTTP and HTML modules for processing requests and responses, but that's not the problem. The problem is seeing if Netscape will correctly render the output from the application.

I'd supply sample code, but that presupposes that I know whether such a thing is possible!