- From: Robin Berjon <robin@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2013 15:25:10 +0200
- To: Tobie Langel <tobie@w3.org>
- CC: "spec-prod@w3.org" <spec-prod@w3.org>
On 21/10/2013 15:10 , Tobie Langel wrote: > How come the tests didn't pick that up, though? Several reasons. One is that we currently don't have tests that test all the features together, so bugs that come from interactions between features aren't caught. Also, there are no UI test (of the kind that emulate a user interacting with the system dynamically). We'd likely have to start using WebDriver for that. In this case few people are using MD and this was a release with a much stronger-than-usual risk of breaking things, so I'm not surprised at this specific small glitch. (Other than that the roll out seems to have worked pretty well, considering.) Overall the quality of the test suite is "okay" but it can certainly be improved a lot. Part of the problem is that writing tests is IMHO still too heavy, suggestions on ways to simplify this are welcome. It also doesn't help that the CI system is reporting false-negatives for reasons I can't quite fathom at this point. -- Robin Berjon - http://berjon.com/ - @robinberjon
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