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F14N: Better Automation - IDE Preview

4 points by stirno 13y ago

stirno 13y ago
Author here, We're very proud of what we're building so we've put up a new video showcasing our IDE. I'd appreciate any/all feedback and we're here to answer questions.
- dos1 13y ago
  This looks cool. Once I create some tests how do I execute them? The video shows a pretty slick plugin for Chrome, but can I execute the tests in all browsers? Under the covers is this using Webdriver? Also, how are you accomplishing the autocomplete on the web? Is it actually validating C# syntax?
- pauljz 13y ago
  Other author here. Not depicted in this video are a handful of other pretty neat features that we demoed in a video a while back [1]. Namely in-browser test recording. In the past month or so we've also built test playback across additional browser targets including every major version of Internet Explorer from 6 to 11, and iOS Safari. [1] http://vimeo.com/71709264 http://vimeo.com/71709264
stirno 13y ago
To respond to dos1 (who is [dead]), no chrome plugins are in use in the current video. We're rendering the desktop of the VM executing the test directly purely with Canvas and JS. Validation is done using Roslyn, Scripts are executed currently with FluentAutomation + scriptcs.
judah 13y ago
When I think of automation tests, I think pain. Cumbersome tooling, hackish test frameworks. The HTML5 dev environment, plus some virtual machines to run the tests in, might fix some of the longstanding issues and make automation tests palatable. We'll see. The fluent syntax to write the tests looks nice as well. Of course, the proof is in the pudding; one can glean only so much from a demo video. We'll know more when they actually have something to play with.
- pauljz 13y ago
  The syntax is pretty great. I think you've used it before, but the syntax you're seeing is the Fluent Automation framework - it's an open source project that's been around for a couple years now. We recently released a ScriptCS version [1] of this that makes the syntax accessible to folks who aren't .NET developers or don't want all the weight of Visual Studio for writing and executing tests. More info on the Fluent Automation blog. [2] [1] http://www.nuget.org/packages/ScriptCs.FluentAutomation/ http://www.nuget.org/packages/ScriptCs.FluentAutomation/ [2] http://fluent.stirno.com/blog/FluentAutomation-scriptcs/ http://fluent.stirno.com/blog/FluentAutomation-scriptcs/
  - judah 13y ago
    Nice. Yeah, I've used straight Fluent (Visual Studio + framework) before. The ScriptCS stuff looks very cool.

4 points by stirno 13y ago

Author here, We're very proud of what we're building so we've put up a new video showcasing our IDE. I'd appreciate any/all feedback and we're here to answer questions.

dos1 13y ago
This looks cool. Once I create some tests how do I execute them? The video shows a pretty slick plugin for Chrome, but can I execute the tests in all browsers? Under the covers is this using Webdriver? Also, how are you accomplishing the autocomplete on the web? Is it actually validating C# syntax?
pauljz 13y ago
Other author here. Not depicted in this video are a handful of other pretty neat features that we demoed in a video a while back [1]. Namely in-browser test recording. In the past month or so we've also built test playback across additional browser targets including every major version of Internet Explorer from 6 to 11, and iOS Safari. [1] http://vimeo.com/71709264 http://vimeo.com/71709264

stirno 13y ago

To respond to dos1 (who is [dead]), no chrome plugins are in use in the current video. We're rendering the desktop of the VM executing the test directly purely with Canvas and JS. Validation is done using Roslyn, Scripts are executed currently with FluentAutomation + scriptcs.

judah 13y ago

When I think of automation tests, I think pain. Cumbersome tooling, hackish test frameworks. The HTML5 dev environment, plus some virtual machines to run the tests in, might fix some of the longstanding issues and make automation tests palatable. We'll see. The fluent syntax to write the tests looks nice as well. Of course, the proof is in the pudding; one can glean only so much from a demo video. We'll know more when they actually have something to play with.

pauljz 13y ago
The syntax is pretty great. I think you've used it before, but the syntax you're seeing is the Fluent Automation framework - it's an open source project that's been around for a couple years now. We recently released a ScriptCS version [1] of this that makes the syntax accessible to folks who aren't .NET developers or don't want all the weight of Visual Studio for writing and executing tests. More info on the Fluent Automation blog. [2] [1] http://www.nuget.org/packages/ScriptCs.FluentAutomation/ http://www.nuget.org/packages/ScriptCs.FluentAutomation/ [2] http://fluent.stirno.com/blog/FluentAutomation-scriptcs/ http://fluent.stirno.com/blog/FluentAutomation-scriptcs/
- judah 13y ago
  Nice. Yeah, I've used straight Fluent (Visual Studio + framework) before. The ScriptCS stuff looks very cool.