On Sat, 8 Oct 2005, Mike Williams wrote:
> We're yet to find a better term to describe the "TestRunner" mode of
> operation, ie. the one that's not "driven" by an external script.
> (Yeah, that old can of worms.)
>
> It would be nice if it were another adjective, for symmetry with "Driven".
>
> Do any of these stick?
> - Simple mode
> - Dumb mode
> - Autonomous mode
> - Served mode
>
> I quite like "Autonomous", myself.
My votes:
-1 on Autonomous mode: it suggests "no user interaction required" (as with
a cron job that runs all selenium tests every night at 3:00 AM).
-1 on Served mode: it puts far too much emphasis on the server that
happens to serve up the HTML tables. I had to frown and think about what
this meant ("what server?"). It's the tables that are the interesting
part for test-writers and test-runners. And such a server isn't even
strictly necessary, is it? Couldn't one use file:/ URLs, for example?
+0 on Simple mode or Dumb mode. But what happens when somebody introduces
JavaScript scripting of the HTML tables-driven mode? Not so dumb any
more. Maybe "Simple" still applies, though.
Here are a few more ideas
- Tables mode
- HTML Tables mode
- Internal mode
- Pull mode
I think I'm +1 on "Tables mode" until persuaded otherwise.
John
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