Re: WebDriver Test Suite

Thanks, James! I didn't know about the web-platform-tests as a general W3C thing. I guess it makes sense that webdriver would be one piece in a bigger validation process. I'll see if I can get wptrunner going with current tests then look for something to dig into as an easy first contribution.

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> On Mar 30, 2017, at 11:17 PM, James Graham <james@hoppipolla.co.uk> wrote:
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> On 31/03/17 00:24, Jonathan Lipps wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> I'm new to the correspondence here and don't really know what's at
>> stake. Are these tests browser-specific? (I.e., tests of an
>> implementation of the spec in a certain browser) Or are they somehow
>> more general tests of the algorithms defined in the spec, in a
>> browser-agnostic fashion? I did a bit of digging but couldn't find an
>> existing suite to look at---presumably that's why you're all
>> discussing how to get started!
> 
> The test suite is intended to be implementation-independent as far as possible (there are some details in WebDriver that make it hard to set up a 100% implementation-independent implementation). The existing test suite is at [1] and there are a few more PRs open [2].
> 
>> I'm happy to jump in and help with some test-writing if it's
>> feasible. Or if Sauce Labs's webdriver cloud infrastructure can be of
>> use, I can see what I can do about that as well.
> 
> The main shared tool for running these tests is wptrunner [3] (although it is intended that with some setup one can use py.test directly), which has a PR open for the ability to run some tests — although not yet the WebDriver tests — though sauce [4]. However I think that right now the most valuable contribution is definitely writing tests.
> 
> [1] https://github.com/w3c/web-platform-tests/tree/master/webdriver
> [2] https://github.com/w3c/web-platform-tests/labels/webdriver
> [3] https://github.com/w3c/wptrunner
> [4] https://github.com/w3c/wptrunner/pull/243
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