[LDTP-Dev] [RFC]Firefox test scripts for review

[Nagappan Alagappan]

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inconvenience.

Thanks

On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 7:24 PM, Nagappan Alagappan <nagappan at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi Poornima,
>
> I'm not convinced with firefox.py. I see the following issues:
>
> * its not generic
> * It doesn't handle any exception, say if you have test script 1 to 10, if
> the test fails for some reason and throws any exception in test 2, tests
> starting 3 to 10 won't be executed
> * The test doesn't put back to the old state, I mean if some exception
> happens, all the current window should be closed and should be smooth for
> the next test
>
> Other comments from IRC:
>
> * Create a readme file with version of Firefox, Linux distribution
> * Add respective license / author files
> * Move 'frm*MozillaFirefox' and other object names to some common file, so
> changing things will be at one place, will be really helpful at later
> point, if you are planing for i18n / l10n. Just change that file content
> with appropriate locale text and your scripts are ready for localization
> testing
> * time module imported couple of times in navigation.py
> * Comment navigation.py line#57, verifyabout.py line#46, verifynewtab.py
> line#40
> * Use wait instead of time.sleep
> * Additional space between url and = in verifynewtab.py
>
> Additional comments:
>
> * Don't use space between the function name and open bracket, ex: instead
> of 'log (' use 'log('
> * Maybe you can use 'if not waittillguinotexist('window')' instead of 'if
> waittillguinotexist('window') == 0'
> * At end of the complete test execution, application should exit
>
> Thanks
> Nagappan
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 12:06 PM, Poornima Nayak <
> mpnayak at linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi All
>>
>> Sheetal & I work in IBM Linux Technology Center, we are testing
>> Accessibility. We are using LDTP test script written for automating
>> Firefox testing. These scripts where written based on Firefox version in
>> 2004/2006 and LDTP supported API's in 2004/2006.
>> So we had to do lot of modification and come out with some work arounds.
>>
>> Nagappan already suggested lot of changes, those will be done.
>> I specially need comment on firefox.py which triggeres test one by one.
>>
>> I have uploaded scripts at
>> https://github.com/PoornimaNayak/gnomeautomation.
>>
>> We are planning to modify around 23 more Firefox test scripts and
>> publish in the above repository after we learn the expectation from LDTP
>> maintainer and the community.
>>
>> Regards
>> Poornima
>>
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