You could factor out an HTMLUnit-independent interface for test engines that included every feature of HTMLUnit, implement the plugin concept, and see if anybody writes a plugin for any other engine (if they could make it fit the interface). This should mitigate concerns over degrading to LCD. Maintain the Selenium (or whatever) plugin as a subproject. If it falls behind, then it will encourage its users to make a contribution without impacting the core WebTest. Sort of a "Build it and see if they come" approach.
----- Original Message ---- From: Paul King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, June 6, 2007 6:46:44 AM Subject: Re: [Webtest] JWebUnit style plugin Ed Smith wrote: > JWebUnit 2.X proposes the interesting idea of plugins. You specify tests in > JWebUnit lingo, but how the test is performed depends on the plugin. You can > choose from HTMLUnit or Selenium as your "real" tester. Of course, this is > all theoretical in JWebUnit as version 2.X isn't even working. Has any > consideration been given to taking this approach with WebTest? WebTest was originally based on HttpUnit before we moved to HtmlUnit. At the time, we briefly considered whether we could make a plugin API so that you could plug in either of HttpUnit or HtmlUnit into WebTest. We decided against that as it tends to lead to (though it doesn't always have to) lowest common denominator APIs. By tightly integrating HtmlUnit we can make use of any features within it that we need. Also, over time, having multiple pluggable web engines requires considerably more time investment if you want to try to keep them all up to date. Maybe if we had 2 or 3 times as many committers we might be able to pull that off but it wouldn't be easy. Paul. _______________________________________________ WebTest mailing list [email protected] http://lists.canoo.com/mailman/listinfo/webtest ____________________________________________________________________________________ Building a website is a piece of cake. Yahoo! Small Business gives you all the tools to get online. http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/webhosting _______________________________________________ WebTest mailing list [email protected] http://lists.canoo.com/mailman/listinfo/webtest
