> I'd say like this seems like a really bad idea, automation code smells. Why > do you need human intervention? While it's possible to beep, pause, throw up > a dialog, whatever else, while waiting for people to interact with the > environment, it doesn't really make for automated tests that can run with a > build process. What can't you automate, why the human interaction?
It's an app that lets an admin manage SSL certs. Depending on the server, the certificate authority used the time for the cert to complete all of it's status codes in our product can range from as little as 15 minutes, to 24 hours. There's also a feature where you can have a user need to approval the installation of the generated cert onto the server (ie. one admin can generate the cert, but some other server admin has final say if the cert gets put on his server.). The specific part I'm working on right now is this approval process. Since the cert can potentially take 24 hours to reach the approval stage, I'd rather not loop. Instead, I'll notify the tester (usually myself) that the script is done, at which point I'll know to keep an eye on the error logs to see if the cert is just being slow, or if it's failing. > environment, it doesn't really make for automated tests that can run with a > build process. Sadly my company is using Visual Studio Team Server, and I haven't found a way to easily kick off Watir test scripts when VSTS finnishes a build, and no easy way to get the results back into VSTS. Supposedly it's possible by integrating it with NUnit or something like that, but I haven't taken the time to work out exactly how that would work. Even without the VSTS integration, Watir was the absolute best testing program I found though. It was the only one I tried that would accurately trigger the javascript events on all the links, checkboxes, drop downs, etc. Hope that makes some sense, -- Michael Moore ------------------------------- www.stuporglue.org -- Donate your used computer to a student that needs it. www.ubuntu-utah.org -- In Utah? Interested in Ubuntu? Come join us. _______________________________________________ Wtr-general mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/wtr-general
