Selenium support for Konqueror - you guys have the interest ?

[Maksim Orlovich]

Could you elaborate a bit more on what'd need to be implemented?


On 9/7/11, Paul Hammant <paul at hammant.org> wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> Selenium's a open-source functional testing tool that's been gaining market
> share since 2004.  We think we're relevant.  Job listings do too :-
> http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=selenium%2C+quick+test+professional+&l=
> Google themselves allegedly run about a million functional tests a day
> using Selenium 1.0 or Selenium 2.0
>
> Selenium 2.0 has more fine grained browser drivers that Selenium 1.0 did.
>  Selenium 1.0 was compatible with (could drive) Konqueror, whereas Selenium
> 2.0 cannot.
>
> We've recently handed off the implementation for the driver for Chrome to
> the Chrome dev team in Google.  Actually they ripped it from our hands.
> The Opera team similarly owns their Selenium 2.0 (AKA WebDriver)
> implementation.
> Firefox devs have for many years been deep into maintaining their
> implementation.
>
> There's a wire API that should be fairly methodical to write for.  That's if
> you folks wanted Selenium 2.0 to drive Konqueror too. We're asking because
> we've made a decision recently that we cannot afford the time backfilling a
> idiomatically correct driver for Konqueror ourselves - sorry!
>
> Thoughts?
>
> - Paul
> (Committer Selenium project)
>