Hi, it's me again! How I'd like to contribute to Cordova is to help automate the stuff that saves committers having to take the manual time to do themselves. I think a good first goal would be to help automate as much of platform release testing as possible [1]. The autotests seem to be handled relatively well by the CI system so far (if anyone feels this is not true, please speak up! I want to hear about what works and what does not). The other part of mobile-spec-based platform release testing is to "run the manual tests". After reading the cordova-plugin-test-framework README [2], I thought this would be a good place to give plugin developers some better tools to deal with testing complex UI interactions that the autotests can't handle on their own. I was thinking appium [3] would be a good tool to complement that in this case. It gives us UI hooks into both web and natives contexts within hybrid applications, plus it also allows us to inject JavaScript into the web context. Wondering what others think?
I could then foresee, with a little bit of scaffolding, a way to string plugins' appium tests together to fully automate the 'manual' testing of plugin tests during platform release testing. Let me know what y'all think! [1] https://github.com/apache/cordova-coho/blob/master/docs/platforms-release-process.md#what-to-test [2] https://github.com/apache/cordova-plugin-test-framework#defining-manual-tests [3] appium.io --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@cordova.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@cordova.apache.org
