[jira] [Created] (SOLR-8474) Test Framework for functional testing Angular UI

["Upayavira (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Upayavira created SOLR-8474:
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             Summary: Test Framework for functional testing Angular UI
                 Key: SOLR-8474
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-8474
             Project: Solr
          Issue Type: Improvement
          Components: web gui
    Affects Versions: 5.4
            Reporter: Upayavira
            Assignee: Upayavira


The Solr UI has no tests. This is less than ideal. This ticket is aimed at facilitating discussion around such a test framework for functional/end-to-end testing components within the Angular UI.

Having a unit testing framework will encourage developers of the UI to make more modular, and thus hopefully cleaner, code, as well as providing a means to identify regressions.

For functional testing, I am proposing a Karma/Protractor/Jasmine combination.

Karma runs the tests, as with the Unit testing framework, Protractor interacts with the pages effectively via a programmable browser (click here, enter there, confirm that) whilst Jasmine provides a BDD style syntax for constructing the tests themselves.

My proposal is that, for functional tests, we will fire up a full Solr server via the existing test framework, then invoke Karma/Protractor within that context. That will mean that the functional tests will be interacting with a real Solr instance, presumably with real data in it.

Karma/Protractor/Jasmine can be installed by npm, which would become a dependency for the Lucene/Solr build process, as for SOLR-8473.

As with SOLR-8473, there will be a dependency on either Chrome (and a UI such as X) or a UI-less browser such as PhantomJS.




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