Re: [Marathonman-devel] Feature question / proposal

[Dakshinamurthy K. <tec...@gm...>]

Looks good. Why don't we put in a set of stories and go ahead. I would
like to add some simple refactorings also. More on this later.

Thanks and Regards
KD


On Apr 6, 2005 4:08 PM, Emilian Bold <emi...@gm...> wrote:
> Hy,
> 
> I'm interested in adding to marathon some features as to reduce the
> manual modifications to the testcases due to the layout changes.
> 
> I've been working so far on some option to migrate the testcases from
> 2 program versions. This is somewhat anti-XP but people don't actually
> refactor the testcases as soon as the gui changes so tests become less
> and less used. Thus once in a while a full migration from the old
> layout to the new one is needed. (Actually it's just changing
> component names after all).
> 
> Now, I'm thinking of adding some feature that will be related to the
> player part. After each step marathon should record the current
> component tree and detect new components (our GUIs change a lot).
> 
> A history should also be kept with the latest componet trees on which
> the testcase worked.
> 
> So, when marathon does notice some changes, it should try and detect
> some simple tree changes (for example: if only one new button {was
> created but now} has a new name, sugest to replace the old component
> name with the new one).
> 
> It think this could be usefull especially since people don't want to
> refactor that much old testcases just because of a layout change and
> re-recording is painfull.
> 
> I'm expecting your feedback. Is there another way to solve layout
> changes problems without extensive refactoring of old testcases ?
> 
> Thanks,
> Emilian
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