[Cosmo-dev] Cosmo Functional Tests

[Mike Taylor]

The Selenium source should exist as a tools repository project (the 
original as a branch) with adam's patches applied to a copy in the 
trunk.

This allows him to maintain the changes and provide a distribution that 
can be installed as a testing pre-requisite for Cosmo testing.

The importing of Selenium into Cosmo should be done only as a last 
resort and, IMO, not at all.

On Oct 2, 2006, at 6:37 PM, Mikeal Rogers wrote:

> So we would like to merge the Selenium stuff we've done into the Cosmo 
> trunk under src/tests/functional/ but before we do I wanted to close 
> some outstanding issues with the current tests.
>
> First off, we have copies of all the HTTPTest (Broadsword) stuff over 
> in the tools repository. QA has been maintaining those tests in the 
> tools repository and we should probably remove the tests ( and tools ) 
> that are currently in tests/functional/HTTPTest. Like we have 
> discussed before, those tests (and tools) should be treated as an 
> external dependency.
>
> Second, Selenium itself should be brought in as an external dependency 
> and we should only maintain our tests and user-extensions. The problem 
> is that we currently rely on some Selenium API changes that Adam made 
> that haven't been merged in to the Selenium project yet. For now we 
> can just stick everything, including the Selenium source, in 
> tests/selenium and worry about managing the external dependency after 
> our patches make it into the Selenium project.
>
> Third, Adam is not a cosmo commiter. Since adam has never actually 
> submitted a patch anywhere in the cosmo tree it would be premature to 
> nominate him for commiter status but after I commit his selenium tests 
> and user-extensions in to the cosmo tree we can call out the work that 
> he's done and nominate him if everyone agrees the code looks good. We 
> are gearing up to get the Selenium Python RC stuff working and 
> although I'll be writing a lot of code on the python end Adam is the 
> expert on Selenium Core js code and I would hate to be in a position 
> of approving his patches when he flat out knows more than me about the 
> selenium core.
>
> -Mikeal
>
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