Re: DISCUSS - test automation for vscode - to what extent possible?

2022-05-24 Thread Shearer, Davin
Hi Mike, Shane is exploring options for automating tests in VS Code and believes we might be able to get away with a pure TypeScript test suite, which would be great IMHO. I'll let him talk more about that if he's willing and has the time. On the topic of code reviews, I think we should

Re: DISCUSS - test automation for vscode - to what extent possible?

2022-05-24 Thread Shearer, Davin
Should the issue be added to the GitHub repository, Apache Jira, or both? On 5/24/22, 1:15 PM, "Shane Dell" wrote: From what I am seeing it is common to use mock data to test out extensions. I can create an issue in apache/daffodil-vscode to start work on a new test suite for better

Re: DISCUSS - test automation for vscode - to what extent possible?

2022-05-24 Thread Shane Dell
>From what I am seeing it is common to use mock data to test out extensions. I >can create an issue in apache/daffodil-vscode to start work on a new test >suite for better testing UI aspects and other things that rely on the VS Code >API. On 2022/05/24 13:48:46 Shane Dell wrote: > I think to a

Re: DISCUSS - test automation for vscode - to what extent possible?

2022-05-24 Thread Shearer, Davin
I'm glad the topic of automated testing has come up and I'm hoping we can get some help in standing it up. I think it would be great to start integrating a robust front-end test suite as soon as practical for all the reasons stated. Does anyone have any advice on test suites that would be a

Re: DISCUSS - test automation for vscode - to what extent possible?

2022-05-24 Thread Shane Dell
I think to a certain extent we can create more unit tests that test out UI components. I have not done much of this but I believe that it is relatively common to do so for frontend heavy projects. However, in some cases in may be more involved some cases I have seen they write python selenium

DISCUSS - test automation for vscode - to what extent possible?

2022-05-23 Thread Mike Beckerle
Are there test automation tools available that can be used to drive the vscode debugger? This would ideally include both something that drives the UI via easily created/maintained scripts, but also things like code coverage analysis. I am always an advocate of built-in-self-test and of