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Hans Bakker commented on OFBIZ-2116:
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What is holding us back to have this feature included in OFBiz?
> SeleniumXml Integration for OFBiz
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> Key: OFBIZ-2116
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-2116
> Project: OFBiz
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: framework
> Affects Versions: SVN trunk
> Reporter: Brett G. Palmer
> Fix For: SVN trunk
>
> Attachments: ofbiz-seleniumxml.patch, OFBizSeleniumXmlIntro.pdf,
> testtools.zip
>
>
> This issue will track the SeleniumXml integration for OFBiz that was
> presented in this year's ApacheCon2008 conference:
> http://us.apachecon.com/presentation/materials/118/ApacheCon2008_SeleniumXml.pdf
> A few of us have been working on a test framework called SeleniumXml. It is
> an extension of Selenium RC (http://seleniumhq.org/projects/remote-control/)
> that uses XML to run Selenium tests (see the presentation above for more
> details). It is currently hosted on Sourceforge
> (http://sourceforge.net/projects/seleniumxml/), but we would like to
> contribute it back into OFBiz to help develop a common framework for UI and
> functional testing of OFBiz applications.
> License Problem with Selenium Server
> All of the SeleniumXml code was intentionally licensed with an Apache 2.0
> license to be compatible with ofbiz, but there are some JavaScript files that
> are used in the Selenium-core that are LGPL licensed. These files are not
> necessary to compile the SeleniumXml code, but to execute a test you need to
> run the Selenium Server which requires the core files. Apache will not host
> GPL like licensed files on their servers (including LGPL) which creates a
> problem for us contributing the code to OFBiz. Here are a couple solutions to
> this problem.
> Proposed Solutions
> Create a custom ant target (e.g. install-selenium-xml) that downloads the
> selenium-server.jar from a non-Apache hosted website (e.g. SourceForge). For
> example, the Apache Velocity project does this with their build which may be
> to work around possible license problems as we have here.
> Another possibility is to replace the LGPL JavaScript files with our own
> version and then get the Selenium project to adopt the Apache licensed
> version. There isn't a lot of code to change, but it would take an effort to
> test it thoroughly to make sure all the Selenium code still worked with the
> change.
> Solution 1 above will be the quickest to implement, but solution 2 may be a
> better long term strategy.
> Note: this current attached files use solution 1 as the workaround for the
> licensing issues with Selenium Server.
> The motivation behind this request is to help the community develop a
> functional testing framework that is easy to use by everyone. We believe
> Selenium is an excellent platform for UI and functional testing. We also
> believe that if the tools are not included with the framework and if they are
> difficult to use people will ignore them.
> Once we have agreement on how best to add these test tools to OFBiz we can
> start discussing other test topics such as:
> - common test data
> - automated test builds
> - new features
> - methods for data cleaning up after a test
> - how to contribute your test case to the community
> - release planning
> etc
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