On Friday, August 6, 2010, John J Barton <[email protected]> wrote: > Firebug uses a home-built test solution > http://code.google.com/p/fbug/source/browse/#svn/fbtest/branches/fbtest1.7 > > The two hard parts of testing are 1) recognizing the visual elements > of the dynamic user interface from test code in a timely manner, 2) > firing events into the user interface in a reliable manner. That is > why you will find a lot of unit-test tools out there that all look > similar but do not support testing of the user interface and a lot > fewer test tools that all look completely different but to support UI > testing. If you need to test the UI, then you will have to invest a > lot of time in one toolkit or another, basically hacking it to > recognize your UI. > > The "mozmill" is one of the UI solutions developed for mozilla addons.
Thanks for your answer. UI testing my isn't what I'm after for now. Do you know if fbtest could be used/leveraged for testing other extensions than FireBug? Thanks, -- Eric -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Firebug" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/firebug?hl=en.
