On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 10:56 PM, Caleb James DeLisle <
[email protected]> wrote:

>
>
> On 07/06/2011 04:54 AM, Alex Busenius wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On 07/06/2011 06:43 AM, Sergiu Dumitriu wrote:
> >> On 07/05/2011 07:20 PM, Alex Busenius wrote:
> >>> Hello devs,
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> I'd like to enable CSRF protection by default at least until 3.2-RC1
> for
> >>> testing purposes.
> >>>
> >>> The CSRF protection mechanism as been added in 2.5, but is still
> >>> disabled by default, because many functional tests used to fail with
> >>> CSRF protection (false positives).  I have fixed the tests to work with
> >>> CSRF protection, so we can try to enable it and test on a larger scale,
> >>> maybe even on myxwiki.org (with RC1).
> >>>
> >>> If no critical bugs will be found during the testing, I'll call a vote
> >>> to let it enabled in 3.2 final.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Implementation note: Enabled CSRF protection puts some restrictions on
> >>> possible requests that should be respected by the tests. For example,
> it
> >>> is not possible to construct a request that logs-in as admin and
> deletes
> >>> a page using xredirect, something that is used in UI tests for speedup.
> >>> We might want to refactor the test utils a bit to discourage doing such
> >>> things.
> >>>
> >>
> >> Well, tests should only do what a human would do, which is clicking on
> >> elements in the page. URL manipulation should only be used when really
> >> needed.
> >>
> > Yes, sure, I meant URL manipulation used to set up things quickly, for
> > example creating a page to test whether attachment UI works.
>
> IMO if a test is not testing the functionality of a given element then it
> should not be clicking on it.
> I have fixed numerous flickers by replacing the UI navigation with simple
> URL manipulation.
> It makes the test much faster and less apt to flicker.
>

Yes that should be (I though it was already) the rule to use tools provided
by TestUtils or add more instead of using UI framework when the purpose of
the test is not to test that particular UI you are using (adding object you
need, creating users, etc.). Also some part of TestUtils could be
implemented using REST which would make them even quicker.


>
> Caleb
>
> >
> >
> > Alex
> >
> >>> Commits:
> >>> * Branch enabling the protection by default
> >>>
> https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/tree/enabled-csrf-protection
> >>> * Branch with fixes for functional tests
> >>>
> https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-enterprise/tree/enabled-csrf-protection
> >>>
> >>> Bugs:
> >>> http://jira.xwiki.org/jira/browse/XWIKI-6773
> >>> http://jira.xwiki.org/jira/browse/XWIKI-5465
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Here is my +1
> >>>
> >>> WDYT?
> >>
> >> +1 as well.
> >>
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