[Proposal] Include Selenium app in the default wiki?

[Vincent Massol]

Hi,

I committed in SVN the automatic inclusion of our Functional Test  
suite in the default wiki. Sergiu rightly pointed that we need to  
discuss this before including it as it's not completely end user  
focused.

Here are the reasons I thought it would be good to be included:

1) It's related to end users if we say that this is a feature to  
verify that XWiki is correctly installed. They can delete it after if  
they want. I strongly believe tests should extend to users in some  
manner, especially for an open source project.

2) This would allow users to help us discover problems in a more  
controlled manner. Indeed if users have this app installed, once they  
encounter a problem they could record a test suite proving the  
problem and give it to us. This would 1) increase our test suite and  
2) allow us to reproduce the pb, fix it and verify the fix passes the  
test. In some way this is about transforming a portion of our users  
into contributors :)

Now Sergiu says that this is increasing the size of the default Wiki.  
Yes this is true. It goes from 320KB to 542KB. Is it worth it?

To be honest, I don't know if this will work or not but I was curious  
to try it out and see what we can come up with.

My idea here is really to try lowering the bar for writing functional  
tests for everyone and for us to get better at controlling if XWiki  
works or not.

We could have another wiki (say "wikidebug" or "wikitest") which is  
the default wiki + the Selenium app and let people interested use it.  
But it won't be as effective I think. I find it kind of cool to have  
our installation verification tool inside the delivered default wiki.

Another idea: we could have a button in Selenium.WebHome to  
completely remove the space if the user doesn't want it for example.

Anyway I'm curious to know what everyone thinks about this. I agree  
with Sergiu that it's not 100% required. At the same I'm curious with  
the experiment.

Thanks
-Vincent

PS: If we decide we don't want it I'll remove it from the build so  
that it isn't included in the default wiki by default and I'll mark  
XWIKI-959 as won't fix.