[xwiki-dev] [Proposal] Include Selenium app in the default wiki?

[jeremi joslin]

Hi,
I'm not for letting selenium by default on the wiki. I would prefer to
setup a config parameter to add it.
is it possible to activate selenium just by adding to the url ?selenium=1 ?
like this it easy to activate fo the current page, and normal user
don't have to load it.

jeremi

On 3/9/07, Vincent Massol <vincent at massol.net> wrote:
> 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.
>
>
>
>
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