Interaction with ExVCR

[hashnuke]

Interaction with ExVCR

[HashNuke]

@zamith exvcr is for http requests made by your http client. When you use Hound, the http requests are made by the browser being used to test.

Unless required, I would suggest that you write tests at a much lower level (parsing the html obtained etc).

Closing this issue.

[danhper]

@HashNuke After looking at the code, I think he is trying to mock the webdriver responses.

@zamith Why are you trying to do this? I am not sure it is really the way to go, could you describe your use case a little more precisely please.

[zamith]

I was thinking of writing integration level tests for this, since a call to one of the tasks can visit a few different pages. Basically I wanted to mock the responses but not have to do it by hand, have them be automatically generated. I guess I can grab the HTML from the page and create a custom cassette for that. Is that what you're suggesting?

[HashNuke]

@tuvistavie Thanks for pointing out. Just looked at @zamith's code.

@zamith I would suggest not trying to use exvcr on the webdriver responses. If you change the webdriver server (let's say from selenium to using chrome_driver directly), your cassettes will break :)

Yes, having the html of a page and writing tests for the parser is better. Or if it is definitely required, then just scrape the page for real during the test (assuming the site is a really popular site, I don't think they'll mind if you scrape a few pages a month when running tests).

[zamith]

I was trying to do that because each task can interact with multiple pages, and I couldn't think of a better way to do integration tests.

I guess that writing unit tests for parts of the parser is better than nothing. Thanks.