Maciej Katafiasz wrote:

> how do y'all people test unit your weblocks code? I'm referring to
> things like testing the output of widgets that use RENDER-LINK
> internally etc. Some ogling of the weblocks-test sources suggest it's
> avoided when possible, but that doesn't explain how things such as
> gridedit are tested, and I'm not able immediately to find out from the
> code.

The magic is in test-code/weblocks-suite.lisp. We frob in our custom
version of GEN-ID that just returns a static string.


> What I'm getting at is that DEFTEST-HTML simply compares results as
> string, but that's hopelessly non-robust in HTML.

Yes, but there is research in that direction. Take a look here:

  
http://weblocks.lighthouseapp.com/projects/18897/tickets/16-fuzz-up-html-tests-with-unification-style-matching


> We're currently contemplating one of the two possible
> approaches, either Selenium or writing a simple programmatic browser
> on top of Drakma and closure-html, but if a good way exists inside
> weblocks-test already, I'd prefer to use that.

I would suggest you take a look at #16 and the code that Stephen has
written so far and try to complete it. This will make HTML testing much
easier for everyone.

  Leslie


--~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups 
"weblocks" group.
To post to this group, send email to [email protected]
To unsubscribe from this group, send email to 
[email protected]
For more options, visit this group at 
http://groups.google.com/group/weblocks?hl=en
-~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---

Reply via email to