Comments on: Using the mozmill menu API http://www.mikealrogers.com/archives/262 Sat, 13 Mar 2010 03:17:25 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: mikeal http://www.mikealrogers.com/archives/262/comment-page-1#comment-77 mikeal Wed, 03 Dec 2008 23:55:19 +0000 http://www.mikealrogers.com/?p=262#comment-77 This menu API is intended for functional test developers to have an easy way to simulate menu usage in their tests. Doing them by name is the simplest API for that use case. If the localization testers want a different API then we can write one specifically for that use case, but having the default API for functional test developers be by position or id requires them to know more about the menu definition internals than any of our functional testers know. Not having an abstraction API like this one for your specific needs doesn't block you from testing the menu's the way you would like, you'll just need to pull out the elements on your own. You can look at the menu API code to get you on your feet; http://code.google.com/p/mozmill/source/browse/trunk/mozmill/extension/resource/modules/controller.js#115 http://code.google.com/p/mozmill/source/browse/trunk/mozmill/extension/resource/modules/controller.js#141 This menu API is intended for functional test developers to have an easy way to simulate menu usage in their tests. Doing them by name is the simplest API for that use case.

If the localization testers want a different API then we can write one specifically for that use case, but having the default API for functional test developers be by position or id requires them to know more about the menu definition internals than any of our functional testers know.

Not having an abstraction API like this one for your specific needs doesn’t block you from testing the menu’s the way you would like, you’ll just need to pull out the elements on your own. You can look at the menu API code to get you on your feet;

http://code.google.com/p/mozmill/source/browse/trunk/mozmill/extension/resource/modules/controller.js#115
http://code.google.com/p/mozmill/source/browse/trunk/mozmill/extension/resource/modules/controller.js#141

]]> By: Axel Hecht http://www.mikealrogers.com/archives/262/comment-page-1#comment-76 Axel Hecht Wed, 03 Dec 2008 15:07:44 +0000 http://www.mikealrogers.com/?p=262#comment-76 I'd welcome APIs to either refer to menu items by position or by id, for the same reasons that Sebastian mentioned. I have a testing extension that opens all menu items one by one, and being able to do that in a cross platform manner would be cool. But I'd need to have it in a way that's independent of the localization used. Same would go for testing localized extensions, something I'm thinking about as well. I’d welcome APIs to either refer to menu items by position or by id, for the same reasons that Sebastian mentioned.

I have a testing extension that opens all menu items one by one, and being able to do that in a cross platform manner would be cool. But I’d need to have it in a way that’s independent of the localization used.

Same would go for testing localized extensions, something I’m thinking about as well.

]]> By: mikeal http://www.mikealrogers.com/archives/262/comment-page-1#comment-74 mikeal Wed, 03 Dec 2008 10:47:44 +0000 http://www.mikealrogers.com/?p=262#comment-74 The menu is created by looking up elements by name, so in a localized Firefox the names should be localized. The menu is created by looking up elements by name, so in a localized Firefox the names should be localized.

]]> By: Sebastian Redl http://www.mikealrogers.com/archives/262/comment-page-1#comment-73 Sebastian Redl Wed, 03 Dec 2008 08:07:21 +0000 http://www.mikealrogers.com/?p=262#comment-73 This sounds completely useless. What happens in a localized Firefox? This sounds completely useless. What happens in a localized Firefox?

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