nokeedev / gradle-native

The home of anything about Gradle support for natively compiled languages
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Use Appium to tests and generate recording of Nokee's IDE integration #120

Open lacasseio opened 4 years ago

lacasseio commented 4 years ago

Appium support classic Windows application testing which we can use to test common developer workflow inside the IDE. Microsoft also released a tool called WinAppDriver UI recoder. Appium seems to also support native mac application.

We could and should use the same mechanic to generate short gifs/videos to display in the documentation. Generating those videos are time-consuming but also affect negatively the project perception when they fall out-of-date. It's unrealistic to keep those videos up-to-date manually.

lacasseio commented 4 years ago

I marked this issue as a good first issue because the contributor can experiment outside the codebase on a solution that we can connect to the project as a follow-up step. We will also need to break down this issue into several on. The first parallel steps are: