[Wikitech-l] Do we need Selenium for anything anymore? (was: [Selenium] IDE test for regressing bug)

2011-07-07 Thread Chad
On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 11:23 AM, Sumana Harihareswara suma...@wikimedia.org wrote: Thanks for the test test suite!  Just wanted to update you that it seems like fewer and fewer MediaWiki developers are interested in Selenium tests, and many are moving to other tools for automatic testing:

Re: [Wikitech-l] Do we need Selenium for anything anymore? (was: [Selenium] IDE test for regressing bug)

2011-07-07 Thread Brion Vibber
On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 8:28 AM, Chad innocentkil...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 11:23 AM, Sumana Harihareswara suma...@wikimedia.org wrote: Thanks for the test test suite! Just wanted to update you that it seems like fewer and fewer MediaWiki developers are interested in

Re: [Wikitech-l] Do we need Selenium for anything anymore? (was: [Selenium] IDE test for regressing bug)

2011-07-07 Thread Markus Glaser
Hello everybody, that's also the way I see it. Selenium tests do test the application as a whole. While I agree that a lot of things that are currently tested with Selenium can be substituted with QUnit or similar, I still think that selenium tests should be used to check more complex