Hello, everyone. I took this effort over from Lucas a short while ago and recently uploaded my latest revisions to his initial patch [1]. If you'd like to contribute feedback, please do so!
Thanks! - Mike (:mcomella) [1]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=910859#c18 On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 2:47 AM, Lucas Rocha <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > ----- Original Message ----- > > If you ever worked on tests based on our robocop harness, you probably > > noticed how unpleasant it is to work on them. Our current UI testing code > > suffers from two major problems: > > > > - Inconsistency/verbosity: The tests and their underlying API are very > > ad-hoc. We're duplicating a lot of code, the code is very verbose, and > the > > current structure with BaseTest subclasses doesn't scale well and almost > > inevitably leads to bloated classes with tons of unrelated APIs. > > - Unreliability: The tests themselves are unreliable in many ways. Each > test > > pokes the UI in a different way to check the same things. > > I deeply care about keeping a nice and positive atmosphere in the our > community. The bit above sounds overly negative and critical. I realize > that many people have put energy into the current UI testing code and it's > definitely not my intention to diminish anyone's contributions. > > I don't want to set such a bad precedent in our community. So, my > apologies for the negative tone here. > > I'll do it better next time. Promise :-) > > --lucasr > _______________________________________________ > mobile-firefox-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/mobile-firefox-dev >
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