[Windmill-dev] Windmill 0.4 Roundup

[Adam Christian]

That's a good question, this may take some tinkering to come up with a  
thorough way to test that functionality.. as soon as I have a minute I  
will sit down and see if I can come up with something.

Do you guys have a set of JS Framework features you would like to  
start with?

Adam

On Jan 29, 2008, at 10:26 AM, Mikeal Rogers wrote:

>> Not sure how you'd write unit tests for filter/phase limiting, as  
>> they're attributes of the *test run*, not anything in the tests  
>> themselves. Their value is during dev and debugging, not during  
>> actual testing. Anybody have any ideas how we could do tests for  
>> that?
>
> We do need to work out the semantic for you informing the backend of  
> your whole test run status at the end of the test run.
>
> The results object you give to the backend will have the list of  
> tests run.
>
> I'll be creating an XMLRPC method for executing the js framework. We  
> can call that with various filter/phase limiting and check the test  
> run result objects in pure Python.
>
> For now tho, we need unittests for all the jsTest methods, just like  
> we have the vanilla windmill API. For now we can just focus on tests  
> that return true, we can work out a way to test failures and waits  
> later using something along the lines of what i outlined for the  
> filter/phase limiting.
>
> We don't need 100% of the features covering in unittests before we  
> release, i just want the first run of them in and we can improve/ 
> expand them later. As it stands we have zero, we definitely need  
> more than zero before we release.
>
>>
>>
>> I think Adam would be the one to ask about calling new methods on  
>> test-run completion. Adam, any clue about that?
>
> Whoever wrote the code that calls report_without_resolve() would be  
> the most likely person to do this work as well, whoever that is.
>
> -Mikeal
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