Front-end testing

12people · October 22, 2017, 4:46pm

Hi guys,
I’m taking a university course on the basics of software testing (seriously, total beginner stuff here). As part of it, I need to choose an app, preferably a web app, to write some basic automated front-end tests for.
Is this something that might be useful to NextCloud? If so, have any automated front-end tests been written already, is there a guide I should follow, how do I submit my tests, and what would be most useful to write tests for? If not, could you point me to a piece of open-source software where it would be useful?

P.S. There doesn’t seem to be a QA category or tag in this forum. Am I right to include this in the dev category? Is there a QA team behind NextCloud?

Escubaer · October 23, 2017, 8:16am

QA at Nextcloud seems mostly focused on community beta testing and unit tests which are part of the code. ownCloud has a way more formal QA program - as far as I can tell from the outside. https://github.com/owncloud/core/commit/9cf6f173a33ea8159402d6ddc39fdb74b01768e8 Maybe reach out on central.owncloud.org if the space interestes you for your studies!

nachoparker · October 23, 2017, 8:44am

Nextcloud has PHP unit testing. IIRC they also had some Capibara or similar frontend testing.

Working on NextCloudPi, I wrote some basic tests in python-selenium. Here they are

github.com

nextcloud/nextcloudpi/blob/master/tests/tests.py

#!/usr/bin/env python3

"""
Automatic testing for NextCloudPi

Copyleft 2017 by Ignacio Nunez Hernanz <nacho _a_t_ ownyourbits _d_o_t_ com>
GPL licensed (see LICENSE file in repository root).
Use at your own risk!

   ./tests.py <IP>

More at https://ownyourbits.com
"""

import unittest
import sys
import time
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC

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In case it is useful. Feel free to extend them!