Dan Nessett wrote:
> Back in June the Selenium Framework had a local configuration file called 
> LocalSeleniumSettings.php. This was eliminated by Tim Starling in a 6/24 
> commit with the comment that it was an insecure concept. In that commit, 
> new globals were added that controlled test runs.
> 
> Last Friday, mah ripped out the globals and put the configuration 
> information into the execute method of RunSeleniumTests.php with the 
> comment "@todo Add an alternative where settings are read from an INI 
> file." So, it seems we have dueling developers with contrary ideas about 
> what is the best way to configure selenium framework tests. Should 
> configuration data be exposed as globals or hidden in a local 
> configuration file?
> 
> Either approach works. But, by going back and forth, it makes development 
> of functionality for the Framework difficult. I am working on code not 
> yet submitted as a patch that now requires reworking because how to 
> reference configuration data has changed. We need a decision that decides 
> which of the two approaches to use.

A more neutral solution could be to provide a hook to set them.


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