Simple testing framework to simulate browser's interaction with php layer
We have a web application which has ExtJS frontend talking to php layer which in turn talks to RESTful web-services. We have automated test cases for web-services but its pain to use selenium to test ExtJS UI so we have decided to have a framework which can simulate requests made by browser(From post, Get etc) to php layer. We need a framework where less experienced QA can also add test cases after looking at firebug(to understand request & response) data and all these test cases can be automated to run everyday.

I need suggestions for such frameworks which are available in market. We have dev skills in Java, PHP, JS so we prefer frameworks using these technologies.
Simple testing framework to simulate browser's interaction with php layer
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We have a web application which has ExtJS frontend talking to php layer which in turn talks to RESTful web-services. We have automated test cases for web-services but its pain to use selenium to test ExtJS UI so we have decided to have a framework which can simulate requests made by browser(From post, Get etc) to php layer. We need a framework where less experienced QA can also add test cases after looking at firebug(to understand request & response) data and all these test cases can be automated to run everyday.

I need suggestions for such frameworks which are available in market. We have dev skills in Java, PHP, JS so we prefer frameworks using these technologies.