[Seaside] Pharo/Seaside UI testing

[Tony Fleig]

I didn't know about SeasideTesting and I wanted a non-browser-based
test environment which WebTester didn't seem to be.

I don't know how I missed finding SeasideTesting. I will load it and
give it a try. Thanks for the pointer.

Regards,
TF


On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 10:58 PM, Johan Brichau <johan at inceptive.be> wrote:
> Why didn't you try SeasideTesting and/or WebTester?
>
> On 11 Jan 2011, at 01:51, Tony Fleig wrote:
>
>> I have to say, I am loving the Pharo/Seaside development environment.
>>
>> Manually testing TFLogin (a basic login and user account management
>> package for Seaside) using Firefox was taking longer and longer as
>> added features multiplied the number of cases to be tested. I had unit
>> tests for the underlying pieces; testing the callbacks on the rendered
>> pages was where most of my time was being spent.
>>
>> Yesterday I loaded WebClient and Soup from Squeaksource and together
>> they made it possible for me to script tests of the TFLogin Web UI
>> without needing a browser. This even includes verifying confirmation
>> email callbacks.
>>
>> I've constructed web apps in other environments (e.g. LAMP, ASP) and
>> never had this level of automated testing. Its surely not impossible
>> in other development environments, but somehow it never happened. I've
>> been thinking about why in the Pharo/Seaside environment this seemed
>> so natural and I've come up with these reasons:
>>
>> 1. It required no extra infrastructure or products to set up the test
>> environment. Seaside's server, the WebClient clients, Soup, and the
>> TFLogin test app are all present in the Pharo image.
>>
>> 2. No shell scripts or Perl or Python code was necessary.
>>
>> 3. The tests cases are integrated into the development environment,
>> and are not in another tool or language.
>>
>> Regards,
>> TF
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