Hello, everyone! The UITest framework has landed and the intermittent issues have largely been fixed. If you're writing new tests for UI interactions (and you should!), you should extend the `UITest` class. For additional information on writing tests or extending the framework, see the UITest page on wiki.mozilla.org [1].
Note that the framework does not yet cover all use cases and so, for the time being, if you're writing tests, you will likely also be extending the framework. While it's a little extra work for now, by doing this, you're making it easier for other developers to write tests in the future! The next-steps bugs are filed as depending on the meta bug [2]. In particular, the app menu component [3] bug blocks several other next-steps. If there is additional functionality you wish the framework to have, please file bugs that block [2] (and please CC me!). If you have any questions, please feel free to respond or ping me on IRC. Thanks! - Mike (:mcomella) [1]: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/Fennec/Android/UITest [2]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=910791 [3]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=910802 On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 3:05 PM, Michael Comella < [email protected]> wrote: > Hello, all! > > The feedback week has passed and I've uploaded what will hopefully be the > last revision [1]. I've assigned two reviewers to the patch, but feel free > to drive-by review! > > Thanks! > - Mike (:mcomella) > > [1]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=910859#c75 > > > On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 12:41 PM, Michael Comella < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Hello again. >> >> I've uploaded a (hopefully) near final revision of the patch to the bug >> [1] and am requesting feedback from a wider audience on it! Please feel >> free to give drive-by feedback; provided there's no major pushback, I'll be >> waiting about a week before requesting the final review. >> >> For further details on the state of the patch, I explained it in the bug >> at [1]. >> >> Thanks! >> - Mike (:mcomella) >> >> [1]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=910859#c45 >> >> >> >> On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 12:47 PM, Michael Comella < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> 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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