[Tech] IE issue

[Colin Clark]

Hey Aron,

You bring up a good point. I'll defer to Justin Obara, Fluid's QA  
Lead, to share his thoughts on automated browser testing tools. My  
short-form summary is probably this:

Automated acceptance testing is a holy grail we've been questing after  
for about three years now. It'll be awesome when we can do it. Biggest  
problems: brittleness and "reach." Many scripted acceptance tests tend  
to come crashing down when design changes occur because they're tied  
to concrete features in the markup such IDs and the like. The reach  
issue is simply that it can be hard to automate some tasks that extend  
beyond the insides of the browser frame.

Justin can fill you in on the specifics, and where he plans to go from  
here on the quest. :)

Hope this helps,

Colin

On 21-Dec-09, at 2:05 PM, Aron Roberts wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 10:08 AM, Colin Clark  
> <colinbdclark at gmail.com> wrote:
>> To avoid future confusion, I've drafted a super-simple browser  
>> support chart
>> for CollectionSpace, intended to keep testing as easy as possible.  
>> When we
>> have a QA person involved in the community, we can revise this list  
>> and
>> extend it as needed.
>>
>> http://wiki.collectionspace.org/display/collectionspace/Browser+Support
>
> Thanks, Colin.
>
> On a related topic, at some point there may be a need to look at
> tools for automated testing of the CollectionSpace system through the
> browser.  Open source examples of these tools include the likes of
> Canoo WebTest, Selenium, Sahi et al.; there are apparently commercial
> counterparts as well.  A couple of starting point links:
>
> http://delicious.com/aronr/web+testing
>
> What have been the Fluid team's experiences with this?  At a quick
> glance at the Fluid wiki, I see user testing-related pages but not
> automated testing-related pages - might there be something relevant
> elsewhere on the wiki, or in other documents or maillist archives,
> etc.?
>
> Aron

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Colin Clark
Technical Lead, Fluid Project
http://fluidproject.org