[QA] My first browser tests in VisualEditor

[Chris McMahon]

Thanks Vikas!

You asked some really great, insightful questions along the way, and the
pastebin examples you showed me were very good and right to the point.

And it's a good test too. :-)
-Chris


On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 1:14 AM, Vikas Yaligar <vikasyaligar.it at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hello,
>
> My mentor(Amir Aharoni) in GSOC had assigned me a task of writing browser
> test for one of the task in VisualEditor Help Guide[1]. Then Chris
> suggested me to work on references_features. He notified me about an
> awesome patch[2] which was about to be merged that time, which made tests
> run faster. Here are the steps I followed:
>
> * Confirmed my idea of running tests for "Using an existing references in
> VisualEditor" with Chris.
>
> * Even though I had written 1 test previously on qa-browsertest
> repository, the VisualEditor was different because of it's complexity.
>
> * First thing I wanted to check was if there is a reference link in the VE
> or not. To do that I thought I will use <sup> element. But that lead to a
> ugly code[3] and I got confused with presence of _elements(I saw it in some
> stackoverflow).
>
> * Then Chris gave me some link[4] to study about page object elements.
>
> * Then Chris suggested me to use <a>text:"[1]" with index to identify
> both of the link.
>
> * He also gave some more resources regarding watir-webdriver[5][6].
>
> * After getting done with my test seemed to fail:
>
> on(VisualEditorPage).second_reference_element.should be_visible
>
> But Chris corrected me by adding when_present:
>
> on(VisualEditorPage).second_reference_element.when_present.should
> be_visible
>
> * Finally test shows green :) and I also changed my test to make sure that
> those were failing if I changed it to should_not
>
> * I remembered Željko's comment for my previous commit and made sure that
> it works for both test2.wikipedia.org and en.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org(as it had respective tags of it). Also corrected my spaces in code and
> added firefox tag to it.
>
> Finally my code in gerrit[7].
>
> Thank you Chris for teaching me these thing :)
>
> -
>
> [1]: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:VisualEditor/User_guide
>
> [2]: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/120832/
>
> [3]: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/vikas_ve/timeslider#237
>
> [4]: https://github.com/cheezy/page-object/wiki/Elements
>
> [5]: http://www.slideshare.net/jariba/watirwebdriver
>
> [6]:
> https://speakerdeck.com/jarib/automating-130-browser-platform-and-language-combinations-without-going-insane
>
> [7]: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/121586/
> Regards
> --
> Vikas S Yaligar
> (9481543789)
> IT Department
> NITK Surathkal
>
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