Upayavira created SOLR-8474:
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Summary: Test Framework for functional testing Angular UI
Key: SOLR-8474
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-8474
Project: Solr
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: web gui
Affects Versions: 5.4
Reporter: Upayavira
Assignee: Upayavira
The Solr UI has no tests. This is less than ideal. This ticket is aimed at
facilitating discussion around such a test framework for functional/end-to-end
testing components within the Angular UI.
Having a unit testing framework will encourage developers of the UI to make
more modular, and thus hopefully cleaner, code, as well as providing a means to
identify regressions.
For functional testing, I am proposing a Karma/Protractor/Jasmine combination.
Karma runs the tests, as with the Unit testing framework, Protractor interacts
with the pages effectively via a programmable browser (click here, enter there,
confirm that) whilst Jasmine provides a BDD style syntax for constructing the
tests themselves.
My proposal is that, for functional tests, we will fire up a full Solr server
via the existing test framework, then invoke Karma/Protractor within that
context. That will mean that the functional tests will be interacting with a
real Solr instance, presumably with real data in it.
Karma/Protractor/Jasmine can be installed by npm, which would become a
dependency for the Lucene/Solr build process, as for SOLR-8473.
As with SOLR-8473, there will be a dependency on either Chrome (and a UI such
as X) or a UI-less browser such as PhantomJS.
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