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

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 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
.
Once again, thanks for the amazing suggestion!

Thanks,
Akshat Jaimini

On Thu, May 18, 2023 at 12:44 AM Jonathan S. Katz <jkatz(at)postgresql(dot)org>
wrote:

> On 5/17/23 2:04 PM, Akshat Jaimini wrote:
> > Hello everyone!
> >
> > We are pleased to announce that the PGWeb Testing Harness Suite for the
> > official website is being developed in GSOC 2023.
> >
> > You can checkout the repository for the project here:
> > https://github.com/destrex271/pgweb-testing-harness
> > <https://github.com/destrex271/pgweb-testing-harness> where we'll have
> > all the tests that would be written for the website.
>
> Thanks, this sounds like a great effort.
>
> > It would be amazing if you guys have any suggestions like the features
> > that you would like to have in the project. As of now we are focusing on
> > implementing the functional tests(that includes testing out the links
> > and other interactive elements on the website) using Selenium.
>
> If you want to start with a "challenging" one, I can give a real use
> case where functional tests would have helped. We have a series of pages
> that render information about the release notes[1][2]. There was a
> recent refactor of the code to simplify the implementation of rendering
> a page like [2], but when it was deployed to production, there were
> numerous errors, even after manual testing. Having a thorough set of
> functional tests should have caught most of them, or at least made it
> easier to ensure we were testing for more cases.
>
> I haven't written interactive tests in awhile with Selenium, but back
> when I did, my experience is that it would be too much for the kind of
> interactivity the PostgreSQL website has. The Django test client[4] may
> be good enough for what we need, but I'm happy to be corrected on this.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jonathan
>
> [1] https://www.postgresql.org/docs/release/
> [2] https://www.postgresql.org/docs/release/15.3/
> [3] https://github.com/postgres/pgweb/blob/master/pgweb/docs/views.py#L307
> [4] https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/4.2/topics/testing/tools/
>