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December 8, 2006

Test Tool Spotlight: Simple XUL Test Harness

The simple XUL test harness was designed to solve a single problem: identifying the search engines plug-ins being used by each localization of Firefox. Firefox supports a huge amount of localizations due to the efforts of the volunteer localization teams around the planet. The work done by these volunteers to properly translate any and all English within the browser is a great contribution, but it does have the side effect of leaving QA with a very large amount of different Firefox locales to test. This test harness was a small step in the direction of automating this kind of broad testing. The search toolbar for every locale contains a list of search engines - we need to confirm that the plug-ins are correct and listed in the correct order. Instead of installing, loading and confirming each candidate build by hand, this tool will do each step for us - leaving us with precious free time to drink more coffee, or nap.

While currently this tool fixes a small problem, the framework itself could be extended to handle other tasks. Other tests could be designed around checking the content of various fields in the browser - creating a basic content confirmation suite. It will take time and creativity to come up with new tests that can be developed and integrated into this system. I'd be happy to hear any suggestions. See the wiki doc for instructions on downloading and running this test harness.

Posted by alice at December 8, 2006 2:32 PM

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