Re: [rap-dev] RAP UI Testing (automation)

[just4lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Hi Benjamin,

I spend some more time thinking on this. It looks to me that even if you
choose the xpath approach, you always need a unique way to identify a
widget. It could be:
- position (relative or absolute) that doesn’t sound like a good
approach (//shell[@active]/toolbar[2]/toolitem[4]);
- text (//button[@text="OK"]) and that could be a problem for i18n.;
- or @id / @name.

Or do you foresee any other approach?

Best regards,

Joel Oliveira

On Tue, 02 Oct 2007 19:09:15 +0200, "Benjamin Muskalla"
<bmuskalla@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:
> Hi Joel,
> 
> you're right - we are under heavy work.
> 
> To your patch: there are some problems which keeps us off to apply that 
> patch:
> 1) Java 1.5 requierement (no problem, one-liner)
> 2) 29 test cases red (did you ever run the tests?)
> These two problem could be fixed easily but there are other things to 
> mention:
> 
> 3) Way more bandwidth with every ajax request and I don't see a reason 
> now to have another system property for something which really should be 
> done in another way
> 4) With the patch you just change the incremental id to an 
> widget-type-only incremental id. So far this is way better than using 
> the incremental ids for testing but it is not sufficient for real tests 
> as they would also break when you just add a new button which is 
> rendered before the to be tested widget.
> Changes in this area should be done as a proper solution and not by 
> trying to make it just a little better. A proper solution could be 
> developed that way but not a week before the 1.0 release. I don't see a 
> chance to accept this patch as there are just too many problems with it 
> and no real improvement. Sorry if it sounds bad but it's just to late in 
> the cycle to address these things properly.
> 
> After the release I would be happy to talk to you about testing RAP 
> applications and how we could develop a nice solution to this problem. 
> One idea was the usage of XPath-like syntax to address the widgets (see 
> testing wiki page). If you have another idea, don't hesitate to talk 
> about them.
> 
> Just my 2 cents
>   Benny
> 
> just4lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > I understand that everyone is under heavy work because of the release
> > 1.0 but do you think it would be possible to merge my patch before the
> > official release or is it already freezed?
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> > Joel Oliveira
> >   
> 
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