Benji York wrote:
Martin Aspeli wrote:
o In zope.testbrowser, [snip] having the ability to select nodes
> by XPATH would be incredibly useful
Yep, I and others have thought the same thing.
Cool. Philipp mentioned that lxml may have a nice API for this, too.
I imagine an existing
library would be available to make this reasonably easy to implement?
With ElementTree going into Python 2.5, I suspect testbrowser will grow
XPath support.
Great! (of course, if we could have it sooner....) :p
o In zope.testrecorder, the ability to add comments that become
DocTest comments is a stroke of genius. What I'd love to see, though,
is the ability to add assertions for text.
We've considered that too. Patches welcome. :)
I looked at zope.testrecorder and thought, hey, that looks simple! Then
I saw the .js file... ;-)
Realistically, I don't think I'm likely to have time to figure out how
this works and make changes in the near future (too many other
projects). If I can find the time (or find someone else who has the
necessary skill) I would of course love to help out.
o Finally, zope.testrecorder always records full URLs, e.g.
http://localhost:8080/test/foo. It would be nice if it could render
those in the doctest at least with some variable substitution, e.g.:
Good idea. The post-record screen (where you choose either Selenium or
testbrowser output) would be a good place for that. You could choose
any substitution you wanted for the host and port portion of the URIs,
defaulting to whatever the actual value was.
Yeah, that was my thinking. Actually, I'd prefer if it just rendered it
as a '%s/foo' % base_url, where base_url was a variable. That way the
test case could do e.g. base_url = self.portal.absolute_url() and we
wouldn't have to hardcode anything.
We would have to handle
the case when more than one base was recorded during the session.
True. It wouldn't be too hard to go through the urls in use and present
a table of text boxes where you could map each to a variable (or leave
as default), I guess.
Martin
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