I'd agree with all of that.

- Justin
On 2010-04-14, at 1:25 PM, Michelle D'Souza wrote:

> I really like the idea of using TestSwarm because it leverages the whole 
> community in order to get platform and browser coverage. I'm sure we can all 
> get into the habit of connecting to TestSwarm regularly - in fact I know a 
> number of us don't close our browsers so we'd just need to keep a tab open. 
> :) It seems to me that we would have less of a maintenance burden when we 
> change our browser support if we use TestSwarm.
> 
> Michelle
> 
> 
> 
> On 14-Apr-10, at 11:53 AM, Colin Clark wrote:
> 
>> 
> 
>> So, to the question of test automation, there are some options:
>> 
>> 1. The TestSwarm server is now fairly easily installable. It's a set of PHP 
>> scripts and a bit of Apache configuration. We'd each probably have to 
>> consistently keep a browser window or two open to the TestSwarm server, but 
>> it should allow us to automate the tests in a fairly elegant and distributed 
>> way.
>> 
>> 2. The Opencast community has done some work with JavaScript test automation 
>> using Maven. They're using a tool called JSTestDriver, which does include 
>> some support for QUnit tests. It is reminiscent of the distributed features 
>> in JSUnit, where there's a server running on each platform receiving results 
>> from the test runner, and then distributing it back to the machine that 
>> initiated the the test run.
>> 
>> http://code.google.com/p/js-test-driver/
>> 
>> Thoughts?
>> 
>> Colin
>> 
>> ---
>> Colin Clark
>> Technical Lead, Fluid Project
>> http://fluidproject.org
>> 
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------
> Michelle D'Souza
> Software Developer, Fluid Project
> Adaptive Technology Resource Centre
> 

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