Justin du Coeur (jducoeur) wrote,
Justin du Coeur
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The joys of writing a new test harness

  • Time to track down the bug: 3 minutes

  • Size of the fix: 1 line

  • Time to add enough pieces to the new test harness to *validate* the fix: 8 hours
It's necessary, and it'll pay off in the long run, but *man*, I had forgotten what a pain in the ass it is to build a good Selenium-based harness. On the plus side, this little fix required adding a lot of the critical pieces -- enough to express several of the common Querki operations as one-liners...
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