Selenium support for Konqueror - you guys have the interest ?

[Paul Hammant]

Primarily a wire protocol :-
http://code.google.com/p/selenium/wiki/JsonWireProtocol

Secondarily a mechanism to launch Konqueror from programming
language(s) such that we can cause it in enhanced mode to be steered for
web-testing purposes.  For example, we launch Firefox with a custom fairly
vanilla profile that includes our own XPI that listens on a socket (7055 and
above) for instructions from the controlling test script.

- Paul

On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 8:48 AM, Maksim Orlovich <mo85 at cornell.edu> wrote:

> 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)
> >
>
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