Automated tests for Katello based on Clojure

[dan.j.allen]

Jeff Weiss, a QA engineer in the Red Hat Cloud QE group, informed me that his group uses Clojure internally at Red Hat for automated testing. He said they used to use Java, but that Clojure offers several critical advantages that make developing automation much faster (and more pleasant).

At the moment, he is working on automated tests for Katello. The tests use an extended Selenium API and are composed using a Clojure API that wraps it. The codebase can be found on github:

https://github.com/RedHatQE/katello.auto

Jeff put together a short screencast to demonstrate the benefits of composing the tests in Clojure.

I think there is a good opportunity here for collaboration w/ the Arquillian project...perhaps even to merge (or replace) their Extended Selenium project w/ Graphene and drive the tests via Drone.

[dan.j.allen]

Oh yeah, and there are all sorts of goodies in the Red Hat Cloud QE github repo:

https://github.com/RedHatQE

Including:

• testng-listeners
• verify-testng
• ssh-tools
• bz-checker
• extended-selenium

[kpiwko]

Nice goodies, Dan. I'll try to get on discussion with Jeff.

[aslak]

like the "data is code, code is data" bit..

[lfryc]

We are surely looking into new ideas for both Graphene and Drone project and how to make Selenium testing more pleasant than it already is!

[dan.j.allen]

This looks like an awesome starting point for collaboration. I also think that the research that Jeff has done is going to play into Immutant's future at some point.