Hi, I`ve updated the project's description at http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/GoogleSummerOfCode/Convertallexistingteststothelatesttechnologies2016 with some of the information discussed here.
Please feel free to ask any questions you might still have. Thanks, Eduard On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 6:52 PM, Eduard Moraru <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 6:46 PM, Thomas Mortagne <[email protected] > > wrote: > >> On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 5:15 PM, Eduard Moraru <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > Hi Anjali, >> > >> > Great to see your interest in helping us out on our automated tests! >> > >> > As you`ve read from the project description [1], the need can be broken >> in >> > 2 groups: >> > 1) Upgrading the Selenium 1 functional tests to use Selenium 2 and Page >> > Objects >> > 2) Upgrading the Junit3 and JMock unit tests to use JUnit4 and Mockito >> >> I would add another nice to have: >> >> 3) Move intregration test from >> >> https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-enterprise/tree/master/xwiki-enterprise-test >> to the various related projects on >> https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/tree/master/xwiki-platform-core >> since we are trying to get rif of XE >> > > Good point! > > Thanks, > Eduard > >> >> > >> > As far as I understand from your message, you are more interested in >> > Functional tests (point 1). On the testing documentation [2] page you >> have >> > the details on where to find the old Selenium 1 tests [3] which >> currently >> > contain some leftover various tests for various parts of XWiki. What you >> > would need to do here is to extract each of these tests and move them to >> > their corresponding module inside the xwiki-platform repository, >> written as >> > Selenium 2 tests and with the appropriate Page Objects that need to be >> > created as well (where they don`t already exist). Some of these >> > xwiki-platform modules do not already have the setup done for functional >> > tests, so you would have to set that up as well (create maven modules, >> > configure the test instance that would be used by the test modules, add >> > page objects and add tests). When this is complete, you should no longer >> > have any tests inside xwiki-enterprise-test-selenium. >> > >> > Since there are not that many tests left in the old selenium 1 tests >> > module, you would also be using the remaining time in creating new page >> > objects and new tests for features/parts of XWiki which are not yet >> covered. >> > >> > About point 2 (unit tests). Would you also be interested in doing that >> as >> > well? Mockito and JUnit4 are much more pleasant to work with than JMock >> & >> > JUnit3 but unit tests require a bit more knowledge on the java side, >> > ability to read the tested component's code, to understand it and to >> test >> > that it actually is doing what it is written to do. >> > We have a lot of unit tests (specially in the xwiki-platform-old-core >> > module) which are in need to conversion. >> > >> > >> > What you could do at this point is to set up your environment (get the >> > sources with git, install eclipse + maven integration plugin and get the >> > correct firefox verions for the current version of Selenium that we are >> > using in our tests) and: >> > A) for the functional tests, get a feeling of what is going on in the >> > xwiki-enterprise-test-selenium [4] module and convert one/two tests to >> show >> > us that you understand the work needed for the functional tests >> > B) for the unit tests, get a feeling of the tests inside >> > xwiki-platform-oldcore [5] and convert a few tests to show us that you >> > understand unit tests and mocking >> > >> > Finally, create a jira.xwiki.org issue and a pull request with your >> work so >> > we can have a look. >> > >> > >> > Your proposal should include a detailed plan of action, a timeline with >> > milestones on what you plan to achieve and in what timeframe and, of >> > course, the above mentioned Pull Request that shows us that you are up >> to >> > the challenge. >> > >> > We`re here to help every step of the way. >> > >> > Thanks, >> > Eduard >> > >> > P.S.: Make sure you read the student guideline [6] for help on getting >> > started and the processes you should follow and, again, don`t hesitate >> to >> > ask specific questions that you might have. >> > >> > ---------- >> > [1] >> > >> http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/GoogleSummerOfCode/Convertallexistingteststothelatesttechnologies2016 >> > [2] http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Community/Testing >> > [3] >> > >> http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Community/Testing#HOldSelenium1-basedFramework >> > [4] >> > >> https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-enterprise/tree/master/xwiki-enterprise-test/xwiki-enterprise-test-selenium >> > [5] >> > >> https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/tree/master/xwiki-platform-core/xwiki-platform-oldcore >> > [6] >> > >> http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/GoogleSummerOfCode/Guidelines#HIncreasingyourchancesofbeingacceptedasastudent >> > >> > On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 12:28 PM, Anjali <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> >> Hi, >> >> >> >> I am a GSoC 2016 aspirant. I am interested in the project *"**Convert >> >> existing tests to the latest technologies*". I was a GSoC student last >> >> year. I worked on a project "Automation Testing" where I used Selenium, >> >> Maven, JUnit etc in building a Java Based Testing Framework. >> >> >> >> I would highly appreciate if I could get any pointers so that I could >> come >> >> up with a good proposal. >> >> >> >> Thank You. >> >> >> >> -- >> >> Regards, >> >> Anjali >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> devs mailing list >> >> [email protected] >> >> http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs >> >> >> > _______________________________________________ >> > devs mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs >> >> >> >> -- >> Thomas Mortagne >> _______________________________________________ >> devs mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs >> > > _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
