Awesome! Thanks for the update!
Jelte Liebrand | Software Engineer | [email protected] <[email protected]> | +1 (415) 318 6507 On 14 August 2014 18:20, Scott Miles <[email protected]> wrote: > >> not leave global state around > > Currently we can't control the custom element registry and therefore > cannot clean up the state of registrations (i.e. you can only register one > x-foo ever). This is the primary reason we are using the iframes, and we > are stuck with this for the time being. > > The work underway right now is primarily aimed at making it (dramatically) > easier to run cross-device tests and to allow us to do a lot of automated > (cloud) testing on commits or pull-requests. I suspect neither of these > features are exactly what you are looking for, but I know that (1) your > valuable feedback has been involved in the discussions (2) there are lots > of general improvements and (3) this is just the start of evolving a robust > testing story. > > There should be more information coming next week. > > Scott > > On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 6:05 PM, 'Jelte Liebrand' via Polymer < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> That sounds very promising; I'm very curious so I'll keep my eyes open. >> Will it still be based on the iframe solution and thus run each test >> individually (with all load overhead), or will it be more karma-like in >> that all code/tests is loaded once, and then all tests are run. The latter >> requiring your code to be a good citizen and not leave global state around, >> but giving much faster tests? >> >> >> Jelte Liebrand | Software Engineer | [email protected] >> <[email protected]> | +1 (415) 318 6507 >> >> >> On 14 August 2014 14:05, Steve Orvell <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hey Jelte, >>> >>> I just wanted to make sure I got back to you on this, I thought I did >>> verbally but in case I didn't... This feedback was very helpful. We're >>> currently in the midst of a host of testing improvements that should make >>> it more pleasant to both write and run tests. We're hoping to have some >>> progress around the time of the next polymer point release. >>> >>> >>> On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 12:54 PM, 'Rob Dodson' via Polymer < >>> [email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Hey Jelte, >>>> >>>> I'm feeling your pain. I just wrote a ton of tests for a11y and it is a >>>> pain having to generate new html files just so I can know which test was >>>> failing. I spoke with the team and they said it's something we need to >>>> improve but I don't think there are any immediate concrete plans in place. >>>> >>>> >>>> On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 9:57 AM, 'Jelte Liebrand' via Polymer < >>>> [email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hi, >>>>> >>>>> We've been adding a bunch of polymer elements to our code (kudos btw, >>>>> polymer rocks!), and have been following the same pattern for testing as >>>>> the polymer elements themselves. >>>>> >>>>> One problem with this approach is that since the tests run inside an >>>>> iframe (when run from the commandline), it is hard to debug any errors. >>>>> We've extended our local copy of htmlTest.js and mocha-htmlTest.js a bit >>>>> to >>>>> improve this by >>>>> >>>>> a- allowing the test inside the iframe to use mocha (with a special >>>>> reporter that postMessages results to the parent frame) >>>>> b- serialising Error objects such that callstacks are preserved when >>>>> sent to the parent frame >>>>> c- posting console.log messages to the parent frame >>>>> >>>>> But even with these changes, it's not always straight forward to spot >>>>> what is going wrong. On top of that, our "hacks" are somewhat bolted on to >>>>> the side, rather than something that is very extensible. >>>>> >>>>> Do you (or perhaps the karma team) have any plans for improvements >>>>> here? 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