[Seaside] SeasideTesting and WebTester w/ Selenium

[Joel Turnbull]

On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 6:55 AM, Bart Gauquie <bart.gauquie at gmail.com>wrote:

> I found the time and uploaded a new version. Please give it a run.
>

Ok, I understand now. I gave it a run and it's great, thanks!


> I've also noticed that WebTester contains an awfull lot of duplicated code.
> Time to try out the reflective powers Smalltalk has I've learned in the
> meanwhile to fix this. :-)
>
> Kind Regards,
>
> Bart
>
> On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 10:50 AM, Bart Gauquie <bart.gauquie at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Joel,
>>
>> WebTester is still in development. New features are added if needed.
>>
>> I agree that the code you've written is yikes ...
>>
>> What you've should be able to write is something like:
>>
>>      self assert: (self divByXPath: '@class="foo"') isPresent
>>
>> which will encapsulate the code you've provided. (analoguous to the other
>> encapsulations).
>>
>> If I find the time, I will add it ... or I welcome your try to add it ...
>>
>> Kind Regards,
>>
>> Bart
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 6:33 AM, Joel Turnbull <joelbywan at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> I'm not sure if I'm doing this right.
>>>
>>> How do I, with WebTester, test that <div class="foo"> is present? This is
>>> boggling me, and testing something like that seemed pretty obvious with
>>> SeasideTesting. I ended up doing this, but yikes...
>>>
>>>     self assert: ( self webTester processCommand: 'isElementPresent'
>>> withParams: ( Array with: '//div[@class=''foo'']' )) = 'true'
>>>
>>> Am I trying to do something that WebTester is not suited for?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 8:56 AM, Joel Turnbull <joelbywan at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>> Very helpful, thank you. It occurred to me last night as I was playing
>>>> some more with WebTester that it isn't necessarily a mutually exclusive
>>>> decision. Like Johan stated, each  can be utilized for different kinds of
>>>> testing.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 7:16 AM, C. David Shaffer <cdshaffer at acm.org>wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>  On 08/25/10 06:49, Bart Gauquie wrote:
>>>>> > WebTester opens a browser by sending a http request to Selenium
>>>>> Remote
>>>>> > Control (http://seleniumhq.org/projects/remote-control/). And then
>>>>> > this remote control starts the browser. Selenium Remote Control is a
>>>>> > java process you have to start before starting the selenium tests in
>>>>> > Smalltalk.
>>>>> >
>>>>>
>>>>> I see.  I'm sure that makes sense for Selenium but for SeasideTesting
>>>>> the best option is raising a browser window from Smalltalk (you could
>>>>> ask the user to do it for you if you are really allergic to FFI).  This
>>>>> is especially true on build servers where ST is running inside a VNC
>>>>> session, for example.
>>>>>
>>>>> David
>>>>>
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> Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere -
> Albert Einstein
> Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important
> thing is not to stop questioning. - Albert Einstein
> The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination. - Albert
> Einstein
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