Mobile testing

[punmechanic]

Saucelabs supports mobile emulators for free on open source projects using Appium. The downside? Well, we're using nightwatchjs for testing currently, and Appium uses jasmine/mocha style tests.

SauceLab's selenium unfortunately will not support resolutions lower than 800x600 - although they say they might eventually. This means we will have to do one of the follow things:

• Hack the screen resolution in tests (somehow)
• Duplicate all tests in appium
• Not test the mobile or desktop platform (please no)
• Drop Nightwatch
• Create wrapper for Appium so it can run Nightwatch tests

This is a pretty important issue as we are a responsive-focused project. We may be able to live for a while without testing the mobile platforms because we are using material design, but I'd really like to have coverage for them too.

[punmechanic]

We could also consider using Galen alongside Nightwatch, although we would be having to duplicate urls which would suck, however Galen does exactly what we need and allows us to actually test the layout (Nightwatch does not, but nightwatch is great for testing functionality)

[punmechanic]

Also note, Galen allows running of arbitrary webdriver actions so we will probably switch over to it. The only issue is that Galen has a hard dependency on Java.

[punmechanic]

The 5-home-page branch currently uses Galen as an example