[theme-reviewers] Selenium automated tests

[Mario Peshev]

Great, will contact you on gchat if available (codename nofearinc here).

Cheers,

Mario Peshev
freelance software developer/trainer
http://www.linkedin.com/in/mpeshev
http://peshev.net/blog



On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 10:33 AM, Hilary J Holz <holz.hilary at gmail.com>wrote:

> Me, me! *ahem* Seriously, tho', Selenium is one of my core tools. I think
> it would be a great addition to the toolset. Not to mention I've been
> writing up materials looking at the theme check plugins as a theme
> development environment anyway. Send me email?
>
> Hilary
>
> On Aug 28, 2011, at 3:08 , Mario Peshev wrote:
>
> Hello Reviewers,
>
> I thought it might be possible to reduce the frontend test time of a theme
> review by recording a Selenium test. By a given test unit data (as is the
> case for the theme review) it is probably possible to record the whole
> process navigating through the menu items, posts and pages one by one. This
> could be done in a series of tests due to few differences between the themes
> and different components such as menu changed and so on (though this could
> also be automated).
>
> I did some tests but my main concern was the scrolling (I wanted a smooth
> and slow scroll to be able to see index page and image test more carefully)
> which has to be implemented by javascript or some other external api.
>
> Is there anyone who has done this or interested to do some test to be used
> together with the theme check plugins?
>
> Mario Peshev
> freelance software developer/trainer
> http://www.linkedin.com/in/mpeshev
> http://peshev.net/blog
>
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