TDL’s been playing around with Tellerium / Selenium for functional web-based tests for a little while now. Unfortunately everyone who’s been messing around with it has been running them on Ubuntu and the others of us on the team have OS X. When you run the Tellerium tests on a Mac with Snow Leopard they fail to start Firefox with the following output from the Selenium server:
Preparing Firefox profile.
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The Texas Digital Library has been focusing on testability for our projects. Since DSpace is related too or part of most of our projects we’ve been looking for a way to increase DSpace’s testability. Traditionally this would mean adding unit tests and integration tests. However as DSpace currently stands is hard to break it up into individual components that can be tested in isolation. You’ll quickly find that writing tests for DSpace pull in the entire system, plus databases, and a file system.
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