Re: [Xsltforms-support] XForms unit testing
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Re: [Xsltforms-support] XForms unit testing
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From: Alain C. <ala...@ag...> - 2017-07-21 09:53:32
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Hello, First, XForms unit testing requires extra actions to interact with controls just as users would do: click somewhere, select an item in a drop-down list, press a key,… Then, for checking the form rendering, accessing the DOM sounds the best approach. I have already tested this with Fleur as a substitute for XQIB because it allows, using the b:dom() function, to evaluate XPath expressions directly on the current page content. Yet, it might be tricky to write XPath expressions dealing with extra HTML elements added for XForms controls and getting properties from an XForms control with XPath is to be specified too… Implementing extra actions for assertions sounds great! All this would be a wonderful task for the XForms Users Group, especially regarding to the new Test Suite to be written for XForms 2.0! What do you think? --Alain De : Tim Thompson Envoyé le :jeudi 20 juillet 2017 16:02 À : xsl...@li... Objet :[Xsltforms-support] XForms unit testing Hello, Michael's recent question spurred me to ask a lingering one that I have had: namely, has anyone developed an approach to unit testing XForms applications, specifically in XSLTForms? I know of Eric van der Vlist's XForms Unit project (http://xformsunit.org/), which I believe uses the Orbeon Form Runner as its testing environment, but the project doesn't seem to be under active development. I'm interested in finding a simple approach to testing in XSLTForms. Perhaps some custom actions could be defined to implement standard testing functions such as assert, assert-equals, etc.? Best regards, Tim -- Tim A. Thompson Discovery Metadata Librarian Yale University Library On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 9:21 AM, Alain Couthures <ala...@ag...> wrote: The path for itemset has to be written relative to the one of the select: in your test case, just add "../../" at the beginning if you want to keep it relative. --Alain De : C. M. Sperberg-McQueen Envoyé : 18/07/2017 20:51 À : xsl...@li... Cc : C. M. Sperberg-McQueen Objet : [Xsltforms-support] select1, itemset,value (what is this form doing wrong?) Trying to implement a new functionality I thought would be simple, I am running into unexpected difficulties with the xf:select widget. I have put a sample form at http://www.blackmesatech.com/2017/07/testcase/index.xml Several problems are arising: - First and foremost, the menu displayed by the following widget appears to be empty of text, although xf:output statements inserted for diagnostic purposes appear to show that the XPath expressions used are correct. <xf:select ref="p[@id='select']/@items"> <xf:itemset nodeset="list/item"> <xf:label ref="."/> <xf:value ref="@id"/> </xf:itemset> </xf:select> - Second, when I try to use xf:output in the xf:label element, I get an error; ditto when I try to use a constant but remove the @ref binding attribute. Are both the value and the label of an itemset required to use @ref? Anyone who can shed any light on this would receive a large shipment of gratitude (and a beer if we’re ever in the same bar). best, Michael Sperberg-McQueen ******************************************** C. M. Sperberg-McQueen Black Mesa Technologies LLC cm...@bl... http://www.blackmesatech.com ******************************************** ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Xsltforms-support mailing list Xsl...@li... https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xsltforms-support ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Xsltforms-support mailing list Xsl...@li... https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xsltforms-support |
