Hello. Regardless of your stance on goto statements (and I would note that they are thankfully pretty scarce in the Koha codebase, with the exception of sms/sms_listen.pl, which has a surprising number for a 126-line script), I think we can all agree that regressions in Koha's functionality are a very bad thing. Well, I have a proposal for one way we might go about cutting down on regressions, *and* saving testers time: Test::WWW::Mechanize.
By adding tests that use Test::WWW::Mechanize, it would be possible to include unit tests that confirm that the interface (at least the parts that are not Javascript-dependent) continues to function as intended. I find this an extremely promising concept, and one that I would *love* to put into practice in my Release Maintaining of 3.6.x (whether the tests are committed to Koha, or whether they are in a separate repository). So, what can you do to help us reach our lofty goal of no regressions, ever, and no simple regressions requiring people-hours to identify? Easy! Start writing those tests! I filed a bug ( http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=8300) and attached a unit test that checks the stage MARC import tool is still looking. Take a look, and think about whether you could come up with some scripts. Lest you think that writing this sort of unit test has to be hard, I have good news! It's not actually all that hard. Documented on the wiki we have instructions for setting up an http-recorder proxy to simplify your test writing to the very basics: go through the steps with your web browser, save the resulting file, and change get() to get_ok() and click() to click_ok() (yes, it really can be that simple). Moreover, I have documented the two gotchas that we have encountered with this so far on the wiki, and I will continue to document the solutions to problems I encounter. So, what are you waiting for? Get thee to the wiki and begin testing! http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Interface_testing_with_WWW::Mechanize Regards, Jared Camins-Esakov -- Jared Camins-Esakov Bibliographer, C & P Bibliography Services, LLC (phone) +1 (917) 727-3445 (e-mail) [email protected] (web) http://www.cpbibliography.com/
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