David Scotson

I've not used either in anger as yet but was intrigued by these for a few reasons. I've been toying with Ruby which Watir uses as to create a domain specific language for testing, I've long felt that automated testing was unjustly the black sheep of the software development family, In a previous life I had some training in ridiculously expensive (yet strangely rather shoddy) proprietary tools that used this approach and finally, I thought such tools could perhaps allow non-coders in the community another meaningful avenue to contribute to Moodle.

Watir is currently Windows only (Windows Internet Explorer only to be exact) which is a massive barrier for me. But it is apparently moving towards supporting Firefox cross-platform and also going to make use of Selenium (which independantly gets good very write-ups in it's own right).

Both tools are primarily for functional/smoke testing and any performance/load testing info they give is probably broad-brush but effectively free if you've already invested for other reasons. I think they could give broad confidence that low-level changes aren't breaking fundamental functionality though I'm unsure of what level of detail you could test before hitting diminishing returns.

Is anyone doing sytem/load/performance testing with either of these two tools:

Selenium

or

Watir

?

Try:

#left-column .content .listentry a { color:#03EE09!important; }

That is, adding an a after .listentry. One of the less obvious aspects of CSS is that more specific rules overule less specific rules in the cascade. Bottom line, if things aren't working try being more precise in your selector.

It might be an idea to add a dropdown that selects the formatting type for the answers (as you get at the bottom of forum posts entrey boxes when the HTML editor is turned off. The default ("Moodle auto-format") will automatically encode weird characters and anyone who actually needs the full power of HTML could turn it on as required.

Unfortunately that would probably require a reasonable amount of changes to the code.

There's a similar site with a slightly more competitive/martial edge:

http://kittenwar.com