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Selenium? Are you saying you don't have automated testing in an enterprise situation?
by evilduck 15y ago
Selenium? Are you saying you don't have automated testing in an enterprise situation?
- 911-inside_job 15y agoI'm saying IMHO 98% of the existing enterprise apps don't have extensive UI tests.
- Silhouette 15y agoAutomated testing of UIs will only ever cover a relatively limited range of observable behaviour we might care about. Like a lot of unit testing, it's one of those ideas that works really neatly if you're writing a simple database front-end or calculator that deals only with easily parsed/rendered data that is input and output via well-defined, programmable interfaces. Unfortunately, most UIs aren't built with that kind of code. Tools like Selenium aren't going to help you spot that the browser is rendering your page elements with a z-order bug, the canvas/SVG output has an aliasing problem, and your entire page design is getting a flickering scrollbar effect because of a change in the font rendering when the underline for a link appears. (And those are just examples of possible browser bugs, not even counting testing your own code to make sure the UI is rendering properly to a human looking at a screen.)