I'm open to anything and I'll try to look at your links. That being said,
web applications are all about integration, and I just don't have
confidence unless it is tested end-to-end using a real browser.


On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 8:21 AM, Martin Grigorov <[email protected]>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Have you considered pure JavaScript based testing ?
> It is much faster than WebDriver based and much closer to the real world.
>
> 1. Blog -
> http://wicketinaction.com/2012/11/javascript-based-functional-testing/
> 2. Tests -
>
> https://github.com/apache/wicket/tree/master/wicket-examples/src/main/webapp/js-test
> 3. Library - https://github.com/martin-g/gym.js
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 5:13 PM, Lenny Primak <[email protected]
> >wrote:
>
> > I have never been able to get any selenium tapestry tests to run on my
> Mac
> > at all BTW.
> > Something has to do with firefiox version or something.
> > So, even the proverbial 'patch with tests' isn't possible for me.
> > I really don't mind the bleeding edge technology though.
> >
> > On Jul 31, 2013, at 9:10 AM, Ulrich Stärk <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > > One reason I haven't contributed much in terms of code for quite some
> > time is the ever changing
> > > technology stack Tapestry is built with. We have an increasingly
> complex
> > stack of bleeding-edge
> > > tools and technologies that I simply lack the time of keeping up with.
> > >
> > > I have the feeling that this might be a turn-down for other potential
> > contributors as well. I won't
> > > be against it but don't be surprised about continously declining
> > contributor activity.
> > >
> > > Uli
> > >
> > >
> > > On 30.07.2013 23:50, Howard Lewis Ship wrote:
> > >> One thing I've been saying in some of the bugs I've been closing is my
> > >> desire to get out of the testing side of things. I have no desire to
> > >> maintain the existing TestNG, EasyMock, and Selenium support code ...
> > you
> > >> may have noticed that I'm a fan of Spock for unit and mock testing,
> and
> > Geb
> > >> for end-to-end integration testing.
> > >>
> > >> I'd love to scrap the existing tapestry-core tests and rewrite for
> Spock
> > >> and Geb, but (alas), that is a huge effort.  But I would like to start
> > >> documenting in release notes and elsewhere that the path forward is to
> > >> invest in Spock and Geb.
> > >>
> > >> Ok ... as usual, since I've been thinking about this in the background
> > for
> > >> too long, my invitation to discuss sounds like a mandate ... but,
> > >> seriously, thoughts on this subject?
> > >
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