The script `benchmark.js` will collect page load metrics from the
extension, and print them to a file or the console. A method for
collecting metrics was added to the web driver to help with this.
This script will calculate the min, max, average, and standard
deviation for four metrics: 'firstPaint', 'domContentLoaded', 'load',
and 'domInteractive'. The variation between samples is sometimes high,
with the results varying between samples if only 3 were taken. However,
all tests I've done locally with 5 samples have produced results within
one standard deviation of each other. The default number of samples has
been set to 10, which should be more than enough to produce consistent
results.
The benchmark can be run with the npm script `benchmark:chrome` or
`benchmark:firefox`, e.g. `yarn benchmark:chrome`.
The driver now has a page navigation function that can navigate to any
of the three primary pages used in the extension. Additional pages and
support of paths can be added later as needed.
* Wait until element is clickable before clicking in e2e tests
A new `findClickableElement` has been added to the webdriver to allow
finding an element and blocking until it's both visible and enabled.
This is now used by the pre-existing `clickElement` method as well.
All cases where something is clicked in the e2e tests have been
updated to use one of these methods, to ensure we don't run into
intermittent failures when loading screens take longer than usual.
* Specify type before parameter name
Various JSDoc `@param` entries were specified as `name {type}` rather
than `{type} name`.
A couple of `@return` entries have been given types as well.
* Use JSDoc optional syntax rather than Closure syntax
* Use @returns rather than @return
* Use consistent built-in type capitalization
Primitive types are lower-case, and Object is upper-case.
* Separate param/return description with a dash
The Selenium webdriver is difficult to use, and easy to misuse. To help
use the driver and make it easier to maintain our e2e tests, all driver
interactions are now performed via a `driver` module. This is basically
a wrapper class around the `selenium-webdriver` that exposes only the
methods we want to use directly, along with all of our helper methods.
Mark Stacey