469393 - Make it possible to stop(pause)/restart recorder within building a test case.

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Testing Graveyard :: Mozmill, defect, P3)

Description

[Tracy Walker [:tracy]]

It would be cool if you could stop/pause recording, add needed code, then continue recording without losing previous built up work for the test case.

Since it's not possible to record every action in test case creation.  A test case writer using the recorder has to do a tricky cut and paste act to record actions interspersed with non-recordable actions.

Comment 1

[Mikeal Rogers [:mikeal] (mrogers@)]

I agree with the utility of this feature it's just going to take some serious work. This is a pretty hacky area of the code that is screaming for a rewrite.

I'll slate this for 1.1

Comment 2

[Adam Christian]

This is on Mikeal's plate, is this going to make it into 1.1?

Comment 3

[Mikeal Rogers [:mikeal] (mrogers@)]

This requires a sizable restructuring of the recorder code. In addition, based on the design session feedback we've been trying to move away from the more monolithic/global record and inspect controls for finer in-editor based controls in the future.

Pushing to 1.2

Comment 4

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+2] (away 10/03 - 10/13)]

Doesn't stop us from creating tests. We can live without it this quarter. There are more important issues to fix. Marking as P3.

Comment 5

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+2] (away 10/03 - 10/13)]

We have dropped support for the Mozmill IDE in the upcoming Mozmill 2.0 release. Therefore it finally has been removed from the extension by bug 791625. Closing the bug as WONTFIX.