Hey guys. I just wanted to share something I did today that I really liked.
I've been porting some of the gradebook's ftests to Selenium stests, and the more I run the tests the more I hate Chrome popping up above my Gnome Terminal. And the 'Always on top' functionality doesn't help much because the window loses focus sometimes. Has this happened to you? Anyway, a few days ago I found this article [0] about running Selenium 'headless'. Since it seemed "so easy" today I decided to give it a try. All I did was adding pyvirtualdisplay to setup.py (which in turns has like 4 more dependencies) and modified the SeleniumLayer class to start/stop the display on setUp/tearDown. (Here's the diff: http://pastebin.com/HNc5tkZB) And now the stests run without Chrome bothering me! I don't know yet of any side effects on this or if it's the right configuration, but it would be really nice to have this functionality in our test runner. Maybe with a flag to set visibility... In the meantime, I'll try to abstract all of this in to a custom buildout.cfg extension. Douglas [0] http://coreygoldberg.blogspot.com/2011/06/python-headless-selenium-webdriver.html "... allí es cuando te das cuenta que las cosas malas pueden resultar bastante buenas..." - Lionel Messi Por favor, evite enviarme adjuntos de Word, Excel o PowerPoint. Vea http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.es.html _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~schooltool-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~schooltool-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
