[QA] Running browser tests against firefox with addons installed?

[Dan Duvall]

On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 7:25 AM, Željko Filipin <zfilipin at wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 10:33 AM, Gilles Dubuc <gilles at wikimedia.org> wrote:
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>> How difficult would it be to set that up (profile to run firefox with that addon) for a specific cucumber feature in the UploadWizard test suite?
>
>
> It should not be hard to do. You do not have to set up a profile, you can just point to the extension that needs to be installed.


This may be the perfect opportunity to refactor the UW test suite to
make use of mediawiki_selenium 1.0.x features—it provides a dependency
injection system for easily setting custom Watir/Selenium browser
options.[0][1] It would go something like this:

Before('@use-some-extension') do
  browser_factory(:firefox).bind do |options|
    options[:profile].add_extension('/path/to/extension.xpi')
  end
end

Željko/Gilles, maybe we could all pair on the refactoring.

[0] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Quality_Assurance/Browser_testing/Environment_abstraction_layer#Customization
[1] https://doc.wikimedia.org/rubygems/mediawiki-selenium/MediawikiSelenium/BrowserFactory/Base.html#bind-instance_method

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Dan Duvall
Automation Engineer
Wikimedia Foundation