[Cosmo-dev] Getting a handle on specific UI elements

[Matthew Eernisse]

I'd like to get the ball rolling on a discussion about a way to allow QA 
to get a handle on various UI elements for testing. The discussion 
started with buttons, but will apply to other UI elements as well.

To be specific, QA needs a way to identify pieces of the UI with an id 
attribute of a DOM node -- to simulate clicks, for example.

Here are a list of the requirements as I understand them. Hopefully this 
will provide a jumping-off point for discussion.

1. DOM-node ids have to be unique.
2. QA needs to be able to identify a piece of UI in a repeatable fashion.
3. It needs to be a system that doesn't require a lot of maintenence or 
manual updating.

Is this accurate?

Bobby, I know you had some specific ideas already. Could you elaborate a 
bit on what you were thinking of?

I hope we arrive at something workable fairly quickly, as the way QA is 
having to update names of buttons in tests by hand right now is totally 
hokey.


Matthew