I've been aware of this tool for quite a while, and shown it to some other devs around here. I think it's awesome, but I have not had a need for it yet. I think the visual editor may present some cases where this makes sense - but generally it seems the most useful for writing tests that involved taking several input actions and expecting a consistent result. Imagine how useless this may be with testing that searing for something in Google returns a search result - the results change constantly, how would you test that? I think it's a cool tool, and we should consider it when testing, but not go out of our way to use it. - Trevor On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 7:30 AM, Markus Glaser <glaser(a)hallowelt.biz> wrote: DOM, we algorithm different _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

I've been aware of this tool for quite a while, and shown it to some other devs around here. I think it's awesome, but I have not had a need for it yet. I think the visual editor may present some cases where this makes sense

- but generally it seems the most useful for writing tests that involved taking several input actions and expecting a consistent result.

Hi, while I don't like the idea of introducing more and more testing tools, I can still see an interesting use case here: as of now, we have no way to test whether a given layout (HTML, JS, CSS) is really rendered the way we want it to be, since both Selenium and QUnit make their tests based on DOM, right? Sikuli on the other hand seems to be based on screenshots and here we could detect broken layout. There is also some kind of similarity algorithm (which I hope is configurable) so that one test could be used in different browsers even if the rendering is not identical to the pixel. The question is, do we have the need for testing screen layout? Cheers, Markus P.S.: CCing wikitech, since this might be of broader interest. -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Sumana Harihareswara [mailto:sumanah@wikimedia.org] Gesendet: Dienstag, 30. August 2011 14:02 An: Markus Glaser; Chad Horohoe; Timo Tijhof Betreff: automated testing with Sikuli? http://sikuli.org/ Have any of you run across Sikuli before? Just wanted to point it out to you. It might face the same problems as Selenium, though. -- Sumana Harihareswara Volunteer Development Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l