In general more testing == better (at least until extreme). Glad for that topic to be pushed. And, welcome, @Gedd!
(from someone that mostly lurks/follows the community, rather than doing much by way of actually contributing thus far!). On Mon, Mar 15, 2021 at 8:35 AM Rob Foley <rob.foley...@gmail.com> wrote: > Sounds reasonable to me. There might be some tricky bits regarding > certain mouse events, since Cypress doesn't let you do things like > "hover", for example, without writing some vaguely hacky jQuery. Overall > sounds helpful though. > > Rob > > On 3/15/2021 9:40 AM, Joshua Poore wrote: > > Rob! > > > > What’s up!? > > > > I see where you’re coming from on Cypress—UserALEjs is not a user facing > app. However, @UncleGedd is the second current or frmr user to think > Cypress is a good idea. For my part, I see two possible, but not mutually > exclusive benefits: > > > > 1. The user community Gedd is coming from rely more on UserALEjs’s > custom logging and filtering capabilities than they do the ‘raw” log > stream. Being careful with words: users are developers working with > UserALEjs in their projects and/or data scientists analyzing UserALEjs > data. Unit tests can/do flex aspects of our exports/API, but better testing > will involve more sophisticated usage of custom logs, mapping statements, > filters and option params. If Cypress proves to be an easy and efficient > way of automating the integration tests I do with say our ./example > index.html, I think it’s worth considering. Else we can think of beefing up > unit tests. > > > > 2. Even if we don’t do a “full tilt” Cypress integration for UserALEjs, > it would probably be useful to put together some examples somewhere and > maybe do a screen-cap movie of how people can include userale payloads in > their own apps Cypress testing. Especially, those that do a lot of > filtering, mapping, and custom logging, it might be nice to provide tips > and know-how for how to validate which logs are being produced, whether > they have the desired structure, and whether their values are in the right > format. Code coverage in testing is important for a lot of organizations, I > think we would do well by users to scaffold them a bit in helping them test > the code they are adding to support logging. > > > > I’m willing to see what kinds of examples we get for Cypress and raise > for discussion how deeply or how we consider integrating them into the > project. Sound reasonable? We can continue discussion on another thread. > > > > Josh > > > >> On Mar 14, 2021, at 1:09 PM, Rob Foley <r...@apache.org> wrote: > >> > >> Hi Gedd, > >> > >> Thanks for contributing. If you have any questions about Userale or any > of its design decisions, feel free to reach out. Ditto on the Zoom/etc. > front. > >> > >> @poorejc wrt Cypress, I've gotten a decent bit of experience writing > Cypress tests in the last year or so. I don't quite see (at first) how it > fits into Flagon-land. Can you tell me a bit more about that (another > thread is fine). > >> > >> Regards, > >> Rob > >> > >> On 3/13/2021 8:57 PM, Joshua Poore wrote: > >>> Hi Gedd, > >>> > >>> Thanks again for the great contributions! We are always looking for > new committers, especially those that were (are) users! Very familiar with > the Kessel Run crowd. Maybe over a zoom or coffee we can catch up about > that. > >>> > >>> I’ve added a few new tickets in our Journey Tests project. Over the > next week, I’ll be digging into Cypress (seems what users want to do, and > you!) and doing a little bug-hunting. > >>> > >>> Flagon is a great place to start your exploration of open-source—we’re > a small community, and we’re just about to start a major refactor on our > key analytical product (distill) to support python data pipelines with > useralejs data. We might even explore Apache Superset integration. We’re > also discussing graduation from the Apache Incubator, meaning that we would > graduate as or to a top level project. So, it’s a really interesting > project and time in that projects’ history to be involved. You can see how > things are done at Apache and perhaps become an apache committer/member and > get involved in a variety of projects. Some of our mentors for examples > have had illustrious careers on projects like Solr and Tika. Good entry > point for lots of interesting madness :) > >>> > >>> poorejc > >>> > >>>> On Mar 13, 2021, at 11:57 AM, Gedd Johnson <geddjohns...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >>>> > >>>> Hello! > >>>> > >>>> My name is Gedd Johnson (UncleGedd <https://github.com/UncleGedd> on > >>>> Github). I am currently a military officer working with a group called > >>>> Kessel Run. My previous team and I forked the Userale repo and made a > >>>> couple mods to fit our needs at the time. Since then, I have moved on > to > >>>> other endeavors but wanted to get involved in the open source > community; I > >>>> thought the Flagon project would be a good place to start. > >>>> > >>>> I'm actually on my way out of the military and have ample time to > spare at > >>>> the moment, so I'm happy to contribute as much as I'm able. Feel free > to > >>>> connect with me on LinkedIn > >>>> <https://www.linkedin.com/in/gedd-johnson-9bb009148/>, and I'm happy > to do > >>>> coffee over Zoom/Hangouts/etc. > >>>> > >>>> Nice to meet you! > >>>> Gedd Johnson >
