> Moving to the dev list:
>
> On Mar 1, 2012, at 11:51 AM, Erwan de FERRIERES wrote:
>
>> what I'm planning to include is just the basics : jars and tasks. Maybe some tests as an example, like a basic login, and some
>> actions with the example component.
>> If there is time remaining, the selenium tests here
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-3511 could be migrated to
>> webdriver and included too.
>
> Interesting and promising, I am sure it will be very useful; by the way I would like to think if it is a good fit for the OFBiz
> framework... at the moment I am more inclined to think that it this should be an external component/project made of:
>
> * documentation of how to run Selenium on OFBiz
> * a library of OFBiz tests for Selenium
> * jars (if needed) or if you want to bundle Selenium in this package
>
> In this way users interested in running the tests in OFbiz will download the package as a separate download from the OFbiz
> release. In fact, also based on the feedback from the users list it seems that there are several opinions and strategies on the
> best tools for these tests. In the future someone could contribute a new set of tests for a different tool and we could also
> provide download links for them too instead of bundling everything into the framework.
>
> I would see some advantages in helping these efforts grow into separate open source projects out of the ASF community (they will
> be more dynamic and free to evolve and they will help to grow an healthy OFBiz ecosystem) but if instead we want to own the code
> then we should probably add them in another place in our svn repository: a new folder like "extra" or similar would work to
> collect all the components or tools like this that will not be release in the same release package but will be released separately
> (e.g. "Apache OFBiz Selenium Tests 1.0"). In the "extra" (but we can find a better name) should actually go also some of the
> components currently in specialpurpose. And we could release them separately, if not individually, we could release "Apache OFBiz
> Extras 1.0".
>
> Regards,
>
> Jacopo
>
>
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