[Chandler-dev] Script-recording/playback as test framework

[Grant Baillie]

On 26 Dec, 2006, at 18:01, John Anderson wrote:

>>> So there shouldn't be any api learning for people writing tests,  
>>> because writing tests shouldn't require any code writing. The  
>>> script recorder will output a test a file with a "run" method  
>>> that contains everything needed to run the test.
>>
>> How are you supposed to verify the data without writing code? And  
>> you said '"run" method' -- what class is that method defined on?  
>> If you're spitting out a script anyway, it's just as easy to stick  
>> in the class definition and "def runTest(self)".
>
> We can compare the state of the UI and data to their values when  
> the script is recorded.

Have you tried this? It seems to me that there are enough cases where  
the state of the UI depends on the current date/time that this would  
be difficult.

> Currently run is a function, not a method on a class, however it  
> doesn't matter too much how we invoke the scripts.

True.

--Grant