Re: automated testing: how to generate human-verifiable views?

2011-01-25 Thread Simone Dalla
2011/1/4 Jennifer Bell > Hi, > > I'm trying to figure out the best way of doing something I'd like > to partially automate staging testing by generating a sequence of > human verifiable views, with the goal of making sure my app views/css/ > 3rd-party javascript etc.

Re: automated testing: how to generate human-verifiable views?

2011-01-25 Thread Tom Evans
On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 11:07 PM, Jennifer Bell wrote: > Is this a really weird thing to want to do?  You can TDD almost > everything else in django through TestClient except for the end result > of how stuff looks. > > Jennifer > Not that weird:

Re: automated testing: how to generate human-verifiable views?

2011-01-06 Thread Jennifer Bell
Sorry if I confused people... I'm still looking for some feedback. Really, I guess I just want to streamline CSS/layout/language/browser testing so problems that commonly occur aren't discovered on the final round of staging testing. I imagine a test series like: [ { series_name:

Re: automated testing: how to generate human-verifiable views?

2011-01-04 Thread Jennifer Bell
OK, to elaborate: I have a open source project with consistent pain points around css and browser testing. Example concrete issues for this project are a) multi-language support, as varying text length will often throw off the aesthetics of the layout, and b) recently, a mysterious failure in

Re: automated testing: how to generate human-verifiable views?

2011-01-04 Thread Nick Stinemates
Can you elaborate a bit? Are you interested in having the ui render and generate a screen shot for human review? That's how I interpreted your question. If that's the case, look in to generating a screenshot by leveraging a tool that generates a png from HTML. I am eager to hear what others

automated testing: how to generate human-verifiable views?

2011-01-04 Thread Jennifer Bell
Hi, I'm trying to figure out the best way of doing something I'd like to partially automate staging testing by generating a sequence of human verifiable views, with the goal of making sure my app views/css/ 3rd-party javascript etc. are drawing the way they ought to in more complicated