Changes

Since July 11, 2005, [http://www.bugzilla.org/news two days] after the release of Bugzilla 2.18.3, the QA team has been created to improve the quality of future releases. [http://www.bugzilla.org/releases/2.20/ Bugzilla 2.20] has been our most stable version ever released, with many security bugs fixed. This result has been possible partly thanks to the hard work done by the QA team. But all the testing has been done manually, which required both a lot of time and a lot of people (the QA team has 9 members) to test the most important features of Bugzilla.

As repeating the same tests manually again and again for each new release quickly became rather boring, we tried to automate the process as much as possible. To help us in this task, the QA team is now working on a [http://www.openqa.org/selenium/index.html Selenium] installation on [http://landfill.bugzilla.org/selenium/bugzilla/index.html landfill] which can either be run from a web browser or from a Perl script directly.

Scripts executed from a web browser and those called from a Perl script use a different syntax, the first ones being pure HTML, the second ones being written using Perl language.

This is the easiest way to use Selenium. After having downloaded and untar'ed the tarball (we still use version 0.6.0 despite 0.8.1 is out, for compatibility issues), scripts simply consist of a table with three columns (command, field, value). A template is available in [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=317695 bug 317695] (template.html), as well as a useful Javascript file for most common actions (user-extensions.js).

[http://openqa.org/selenium-ide/ selenium-IDE] ([https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?application=firefox&category=Newest&numpg=10&id=2079 amo], formerly [http://seleniumrecorder.mozdev.org/ Selenium Recorder]) is a Firefox extension which writes scripts for you. It records your actions and converts them into a valid Selenium script. If you decide to install this extension, you don't need to install Selenium separately; everything is included in the XPI package (samples and docs are not included though).

The installation and configuration are a bit harder. First download and install [http://search.cpan.org/~lukec/Test-WWW-Selenium/ Test::WWW::Selenium]. In case you still use version 0.03, the following modules are required too: