+1 Thanks, Marius
Vincent Massol wrote: > Hi devs, > > Jerome and I have explored using Selenium2 (see > http://xwiki.markmail.org/thread/cqbxdmhqdi36kovn) > > The code is in > http://svn.xwiki.org/svnroot/xwiki/contrib/sandbox/webdriver-ui-tests/ > > I'd like to propose to: > > * Move the code in > http://svn.xwiki.org/svnroot/xwiki/enterprise/trunk/distribution-test/ui-tests > * Agree that from now on *new* UI functional tests are written using Selenium2 > * Slowly migrate current functional tests over time (I have almost finished > migrating the login/logout tests for ex) > * Use the PageObject pattern as shown in the existing tests in > http://svn.xwiki.org/svnroot/xwiki/enterprise/trunk/distribution-test/ui-tests > > The pros to use selenium2 are those listed in > http://xwiki.markmail.org/thread/cqbxdmhqdi36kovn: > > * No more JS sandbox. In selenium1 all the selenium API is executed as JS in > the browser. In Selenium2 the browsers are controlled using their native APIs > (JNA). > * Faster (as a consequence of the previous point) > * Allows to do stuff such as file uploads, etc since there's no longer the > issue of the JS sandbox > * No need to start a Selenium Proxy. All you need is to start XE and then you > can run the tests as simple JUnit tests. > * The API is much cleaner (this is to be expected with hindsight). See > http://seleniumhq.org/docs/09_webdriver.html > * There's a very fast executing HtmlUnit driver (not to be used with tests > using JS though since it emulates browser JS support and thus cannot > guarantee the result in the real browser) > > Caveat: > > * Selenium2 is still quite young so it's possible that there are cases when > it'll have bugs or be instable. We should still allow using selenium1 tests > when this happens. > > Note: I have configured hudson to run the selenium2 tests from the sandbox to > see how stable it is. > > Here's my +1 > > Thanks > -Vincent > > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
