[Vtigercrm-developers] automated tests update

[Jeff Kowalczyk]

Matthew Brichacek wrote:
> I haven't looked into Selenium yet but with JS does it work at the
> source level only, does it use gecko to actually execute and evaluate
> the JS or can it check for changes in the DOM like it does the source?
> In 5.x there are quite a few places where the DOM is being manipulated
> directly or indirectly and I don't think a source level verification
> tool will catch most of those.

Selenium directly drives the browser as if the user were clicking it. The
demo http://www.openqa.org/selenium-core/demos.html illustrates the
concept.

> Maybe augmenting it with the scriptactulous unit test lib would work?
> http://wiki.script.aculo.us/scriptaculous/show/UnitTesting

Unit tests in the client and server-side source would be enhancements, to
be sure. However, I am skeptical about trying to retrofit unit test
coverage to a large code base. The community would have a hard time
achieving useful code coverage unless there were tests for *everything*,
starting from early in the project.

Selenium's end-result testing, and the fact that such tests can be
recorded for submission by even novice users, would be an efficient use of
limited community resources. If the testing fever strikes the community,
perhaps all new code could be required to have unit tests, and so on.