Re: Regarding The PGWeb Testing Harness Suite Development in GSOC 2023

On 5/17/23 3:40 PM, Akshat Jaimini wrote:
> Thanks a lot for the suggestion. I'll check out if django test client 
> can satisfy our requirements, asap.
> The reason for using selenium earlier was to utilize its capability to 
> conduct cross-browser testing

postgresql.org doesn't have too much functionality that would really 
benefit from cross-browser testing. The CSS layer leverages Bootstrap, 
so we defer cross-browser compatibility to that library. JavaScript is 
pretty minimal, though granted it is used on a critical path, i.e. the 
download page[1].

> as well but if the test client can satisfy 
> the major requirements
> of the functional testing component we'll surely switch over to it for 
> that module. I'll share the results as soon as I am done testing out the 
> test client

That all said, I think we'd get the most impact having tests around the 
other functional units, and I think the Django test client can get us 
pretty far, though if it turns out we'd benefit from Selenium I'd be 
happy to consider it.

Thanks,

Jonathan

[1] https://www.postgresql.org/download/