[Zope-Coders] Website regression testing tool now available

[seb bacon]

Thanks for the tips.

I'll have another go soon and let you know my progress.

seb

On Mon, 2002-03-04 at 21:51, Richard Jones wrote:
> On Tue, 5 Mar 2002 04:11, seb bacon wrote:
> > One of
> > the problems was that a side-effect of parsing the DOM is that all the
> > pages need to be error-free or the tests fail.  Now, while that's
> > obviously a good goal (it picked up a few typos), it also got in the way
> > of me actually doing any tests, partly because in one case where there
> > was a missing close tag it took me a while to track it down (I got an
> > EOF error from the parser).
> 
> Yes, this is a big issue here too - the error needs to be much more easily 
> pinpointed.
> 
> 
> > I also couldn't get a form post to work properly.  I spent about 20
> > minutes wrestling with it, but despite copying your examples, I couldn't
> > get it to work.  The error reporting was too vague to help me pinpoint
> > it and I didn't have the energy to track it down myself.
> 
> I suspect that there's some things that I do automatically now that aren't 
> documented. One of the biggies is that you must be sure to include the 
> correct names ("foo" vs "foo:string"). Another is that often a submit 
> name:value is needed. In an image button submit, that's "name.x". That sort 
> of thing :)
> 
> 
> 
>     Richard
> 
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