[QA] Problem with Selenium, MobileFrontend, or VisualEditor?

[James Forrester]

On 8 September 2014 10:17, Željko Filipin <zfilipin at wikimedia.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 5:36 PM, Chris McMahon <cmcmahon at wikimedia.org>
> wrote:
>
>> What's happening is that Selenium is trying to enter a string into the
>> ContentEditable div in VisualEditor manifested within the MobileFrontend
>> web view.  The first character of the string that Selenium types does not
>> show up as having been entered.
>
>
> #1 A month ago we had a similar problem with chrome not entering text
> correctly, and the problem was on sauce labs side.
> #2 I was not able to reproduce the problem on my machine (mac) with local
> firefox.
> #3 I was able to reproduce the problem on my machine with remote firefox
> on sauce labs.
>
> The above made me think the problem is again on the sauce labs side. To
> test my hypothesis I would like to create a small script that will work
> fine with local firefox, but fail with remote firefox. The problem is that
> we require users to log in in order to use mobile visual editor. That makes
> the script unnecessary long.
>
> Do we have mobile visual editor somewhere public where logging in is not
> required?
>

​No, all edits in mobile have to be logged-in, by design.

J.
-- 
James D. Forrester
Product Manager, Editing
Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.

jforrester at wikimedia.org | @jdforrester
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