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Headless Web testing framework

Open jamescheney opened this issue 8 years ago • 3 comments

jamescheney avatar Mar 30 '17 13:03 jamescheney

I was thinking (re: #156 ) that it would be handy to set up a simple script for regression testing of relatively simple web things, along the following lines:

  • run short Links program that builds a web page and starts using servePages(), background it
  • use wget or similar to check that the http response is what we expect
  • shutdown the Links program

Would it be worthwhile to set up a separate script to do this, or is it a trivial special case of the headless web testing frameworks you've looked at?

jamescheney avatar May 08 '17 11:05 jamescheney

Hi James,

We'd need to do step 1 manually (I would imagine using Python's subprocess library or something similar), but steps 2 and 3 would be doable using the headless web testing frameworks.

SimonJF avatar May 08 '17 12:05 SimonJF

I'm on it

ChefYeum avatar Jul 26 '21 13:07 ChefYeum