Hi Gary, This is awesome technology!
Thanks a lot for completing these crack ideas we had in Dublin. We should blog at some point about this. It's just too cool. Cheers On 11-09-23 10:02 AM, Gary Poster wrote: > Hello all. > > Yesterday I landed code to write and run YUI XHR tests. This was an effort > that began at the Dublin sprint with Francis, Curtis, Deryck, Steve, and > myself. It had been put aside for awhile, and I brought it to completion. > > This is intended to be the replacement for our Windmill tests. It allows you > to run YUI tests with the full application server behind you. > > These tests should be used sparingly. Favor pure JS tests and pure Python > server tests. Save these YUI XHR tests for tightly focused integration > tests assuring that our server and client code agree on the expected > contracts. > > Here's a high-level feature list. > > - You can easily write fixtures that allow you to use the standard Launchpad > object factory to set up. > - A setup fixture can easily communicate back to the Javascript that called > it, giving information about what it created, for instance. > - There's a setup function to easily log your browser in as any person, > including a person created by a factory. > - A single call, usually in your YUI test's teardown, automatically resets > the database after each test, as well as running any additional clean-ups you > might need, if any. > - You can run the tests interactively. > - It's easy to set the tests up to be run automatically. > > A database teardown takes about half a second on my machine, for reference. > In my experience so far, this is typically the most expensive aspect of > tests, so 12 tests take around six seconds for me. > > If you look at standard_yuixhr_test_template.js and > standard_yuixhr_test_template.py in the root of the Launchpad tree, you can > see a single test with many comments, giving an example of what you can do. > > I also intend to work on bug 724609 very soon, converting ye olde > http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~launchpad-pqm/launchpad/stable/view/12450/lib/canonical/launchpad/windmill/jstests/launchpad_ajax.js > to the new style, which will give a good extended example of how to use this. > > I've updated the wiki to point to the two example templates, and to indicate > that we no longer use Windmill. Please help by identifying areas of > insufficient documentation, and maybe even by fixing them yourself if you > feel comfortable doing so. > > The only issue we've encountered so far is that machines (like VMs) with only > 1G of RAM may time out during these automated tests. Upping it to 2G seems > to address the issue. ec2 test and buildbot are both reliably fine with the > new tests so far. > > This is the bleeding edge; hopefully no one gets cut too badly. :-) Let me > know if you encounter troubles, and I'll try to help out. > > Gary > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev > Post to : launchpad-dev@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp -- Francis J. Lacoste francis.laco...@canonical.com
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