ANN: MRW online demo

[Phlip]

Rubies:

MiniRubyWiki can host graphical acceptance tests. I finally got around to
putting a demo of this situation online:

http://www.zeroplayer.com/cgi-bin/wiki?TestFlea
http://www.zeroplayer.com/cgi-bin/wiki?TestWikiFormat

Have a click - you'l see the result of choice use of XSLT, REXML, YAML,
XHTML, XML, and fractals.

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Phlip
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[Phil Tomson]

In article <LvwPe.3787$u_6....@newssvr17.news.prodigy.com>,

Phlip <phli...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>Rubies:
>
>MiniRubyWiki can host graphical acceptance tests. I finally got around to
>putting a demo of this situation online:
>
>http://www.zeroplayer.com/cgi-bin/wiki?TestFlea
>http://www.zeroplayer.com/cgi-bin/wiki?TestWikiFormat
>
>Have a click - you'l see the result of choice use of XSLT, REXML, YAML,
>XHTML, XML, and fractals.
>

So I click on, say tropism (I click on the paper&quil icon) and then some
code appears and below that I see what looks like a screenshot of output
from FleaGL. So is that a screenshot generated when I click the
paper&quil icon or is it just a stored image?

This all looks very cool, just trying to figure out if it's cool or WAY
COOL.

Phil

[Phlip]

Phil Tomson wrote:

http://www.zeroplayer.com/cgi-bin/wiki?TestFlea

> So I click on, say tropism (I click on the paper&quil icon) and then some
> code appears and below that I see what looks like a screenshot of output
> from FleaGL. So is that a screenshot generated when I click the
> paper&quil icon or is it just a stored image?

It's an image stored from the last time the test ran. If the file were not
read-only, and if you changed the source and hit Test, the back-end would
render on the server, and you'd get a new fractal shape.

The problem with testing is it uses the same tools as cracking, so I can't
let you change the Ruby source; you might do something naughty. I will work
on that.

High Moon Studios uses this rig to test DarkWatch. You change Lua script,
hit Test, and their game runs on the server and collects a screenshot of the
hero springing some trap in the game.

> This all looks very cool, just trying to figure out if it's cool or WAY
> COOL.

Forget games. Imagine if you need to localize a GUI to 10 languages. You
configure the same test suite to run in each language, taking screen shots
as it goes. Then you tell your linguists to review all the outputs, looking
for all the little typos and missing ` marks that we gringos wouldn't
notice.

If you must review appearances manually, at least time- and space-shift them
away from the bench version of the application!