Re: webdriver on web-platform-tests

On 02/04/2014 05:07 PM, James Graham wrote:
> On 04/02/14 12:58, Denis Ah-Kang wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> The guys working on webdriver added a couple of tests [1] a few months
>> ago using the python implementation and it seems to work fine except
>> that it's not running on wptserve but on a python webserver made by
>> Mozilla. The switch shouldn't be too hard according to James.
>>
>> I was wondering how people feel about starting to write tests based on
>> what's already in [1]. We should then be able to automate most of the
>> manual tests.
>> Any thoughts?
> 
> I am fine with automating the manual tests using webdriver, although we
> should enforce the requirement that they can still be run without
> webdriver for situations in which it is not available.
> 
> We need to decide on which client language we will support; I am
> strongly in favour of using python since that is a requirement for the
> tests in any case.

+1

> 
> Obviously webdriver-based tests for other specs should go inside the
> path for the spec they are testing and not the webdriver/ path. That
> means that this doesn't have any dependence on the webdriver tests
> themselves moving to wptserve. There is probably some extra work to do
> ensuring that a webdriver test is distinguishable from a normal python
> file. And probably some more technical challenges besides.
> 

Can't we go with a naming convention for the webdriver tests that would
differentiate them from the other files?

Denis

Received on Tuesday, 4 February 2014 13:32:50 UTC