On Aug 23, 11:04 am, "Mike Hansen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello all,
Hi Mike,
> While we continue to add tests to the notebook code, there are some
> things that we just can't test directly in Python such as browser
> interactions / Javascript / etc. Luckily, there is a nice software
> package designed to handle this problem: Seleniumhttp://selenium.openqa.org/.
> Selenium has two components -- a server
> and a client. The server is a Java application which is what handles
> the control of the browser (IE, Safari, or Firefox). There are client
> bindings for many languages including Python. There is a Firefox
> extension (Selenium IDE) which allows you to record your actions and
> export the as a Python unit test; this makes writing tests pretty
> easy.
>
> We should begin developing a Selenium test suite for Sage that we can
> run before every release to verify that the notebook does indeed
> behave as it should. If anyone wants to take on this project, I'm
> sure a lot of people (including myself) would be very appreciative.
In light of the recent failures in the notebook and the lack of
testing the interface in the browser I consider this an excellent
idea. :)
Having seen you demo it I would suggest that we get Timothy or Igor to
start writing tests in that direction to cover the notebook as well as
@interact.
> --Mike
Cheers,
Michael
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