932680 - [marionette-marker] Show the cursor when user runs tests.

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Testing Graveyard :: JSMarionette, defect)

Description

[Evan Tseng [:evanxd]]

Attachment: Run tests with cursor

Hi all,

We could show a cursor when user runs tests to let user know where does the runner click on the screen.

Please see the demo in the video.
And the repository is in https://github.com/evanxd/marionette-marker.

It should be useful for debugging the test code.
How do you guys think?

Comment 1

[James Lal [:lightsofapollo]]

Cool! Now do it with multiple touch events ;)

Comment 2

[Evan Tseng [:evanxd]]

Hi James,

Actually, not yet. But we could to that.
It just only hook click event currently.
And we could let it mark a element selected with client.findElement('css-selector').

Comment 3

[Evan Tseng [:evanxd]]

Oh, I just missed your idea.
I mean that yes we could to that.

Comment 4

[Evan Tseng [:evanxd]]

Misunderstood the idea.

Comment 5

[Gareth Aye [:gaye] (back from PTO)]

Agh the video isn't loading quite right for me... must go find plugin

Comment 6

[Mike Pennisi [:jugglinmike]]

Nice idea, Evan! One minor detail: if two click events are scripted for the same location on screen, it's difficult to tell when/if the second has occurred. Do you think you could somehow animate the overlay to communicate taps/clicks? For instance, it might be even more useful if the overlay gradually faded out over time. (I'm not sure how you've done this, so I don't know if this is technically possible.)

Comment 7

[Evan Tseng [:evanxd]]

Hi all, 

BTW, I think the desktop-client doesn't support multiple touch, right?
So we will not have multiple touch test case run in desktop-client?

Comment 8

[Evan Tseng [:evanxd]]

Hi Mike,

What I do for cursor thing is add a div element in a App, and listen the click events to show the cursor div on the screen.

You could see the logic in https://github.com/evanxd/marionette-marker/blob/master/index.js#L76.

And I'm just wondering that do we have time to show to user the overlay animate if the click events in tests run so fast like the video.

Comment 9

[Evan Tseng [:evanxd]]

Actually, the test will run more fast. In the video, I set 300ms sleep for each click.

Comment 10

[Firefox Bug Husbandry Bot]

Bulk closed as part of https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1422750