gravitystorm left a comment (openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website#6497)
> So it sounds like this is a solution to that but with the downside that
> you're really testing how the site will behave in a browser any more.
I have the "behave like a browser" split into two aspects in my mind:
* With regards to the manner that the tests are written in, I prefer "click_on
link, fill_in foo, click submit" as more closely mimicking what a user is
doing. The alternative is "assert page has_link(foo), get foo, assert_dom
has_input_field, post bar" and I find that more fragile and generally less like
mimicking the user experience. So that's in favour of the system test syntax.
* Then when it comes to the manner the tests are run, I'd love to just push
everything through a real (albeit headless) browser, but for practical reasons
it can be painfully slow. I console (delude?) myself that using e.g. rack-test
(or similar) is like "using the site with javascript disabled". It's not ideal,
but I haven't come across many actual problems with doing that.
I live in hope that someone can create something that's much closer to a real
browser, in terms of layout engines and js execution, without having to
actually be an entire browser and all the headaches that brings.
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