[Systers-dev] Using Selenium for Testing

[Robin Jeffries]

Is this something we can do for free long term?  It looks like a fair amount
of work to set up, and I wouldn't want us to spend the time on that if it
were just for this summer (the web site gives me the impression that this is
short term).

If the test infrastructure project thinks that they could create a core set
of tests with this, and then having additional tests done by each project
this summer could give us a good test suite.

It seems most useful for GUI testing, where at some point we will need to
run tests on multiple browsers, OS configs etc.  This could potentially save
a lot of time when we get that far.

Simone, have you used Selenium for testing?  Could you comment on how
easy/hard it is to write selenium tests for either browser GUIs or database
tests?

Robin



On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 4:08 PM, Jennifer Redman <jenred at gmail.com> wrote:

> Sauce Labs (Selenium based cloud testing service)  offers free-testing time
> for Open Source Projects (they are also a GSoC participant this year).
>
> Would the different soc project teams please take a look and see if this is
> something we should integrate into our testing process?
>
> I expect it will save some significant testing time.
>
> http://saucelabs.com/
>
> Let me know and I'll work out the details for us to set up a testing
> instance.
>
> Thanks,
> Jen
>
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