- From: Simon Stewart <shs@google.com>
- Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 15:39:39 +0100
- To: James Graham <jgraham@opera.com>
- Cc: public-test-infra@w3.org
On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 3:26 PM, James Graham <jgraham@opera.com> wrote: > On 06/15/2011 04:12 PM, Philippe Le Hegaret wrote: >> >> Does selenium allow for testing mobile browsers as well? >> >> Looking at >> http://seleniumhq.org/about/platforms.html >> it doesn't seem to be the case. > > It can in Opera at least because the test code and the browser instance are > separated by the scope protocol, allowing them to be on seperate physical > devices. > > I have to say though that I have some reservations about using WebDriver for > testing support of various standards. Although there are clearly things that > it can do that we can't currently do with purely in-browser tools, it is > rather complex. I would worry about differences in WebDriver implementations > causing more apparent differences than actual bugs in the implementations. This is why we have a fairly comprehensive suite of tests that define the behaviour expected of a webdriver. Currerntly there are well over 400 tests being run, with differences being flagged. We're also already working on beefing up the documentation to make it clearer what the expected behaviour is without needing to run the tests. IME, most of the differences so far are to do with the fact that browsers are quirky beasts and tend to do things in different ways. For example, the values of events fired by keyboard inputs differ radically between browsers. > It is possible, however, that I have misunderstood what people are proposing > here. Is the idea to standardise on the use of WebDriver for testing other > specs, or to standardise WebDriver itself? I'm not sure it's entirely possible to have the former without the latter. Regards, Simon
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