[ZODB-Dev] Snapshotting state with DemoStorage

[Jim Fulton]

Look at zc.selenium, which does this.

Jim

On May 27, 2008, at 5:22 PM, Martin Aspeli wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to set up a test case with Selenium RC. For this I need  
> to be able to set up a layer that includes a base state Plone site  
> with some data. I then need to be able to execute a number of  
> Selenium tests (which will perform operations that do ZODB commits  
> across multiple requests), rolling back to the snapshot state after  
> each one.
>
> Is it possible to create a fast "snapshot" with DemoStorage e.g. in  
> a ZopeTestCase layer, and then have the tear-down after each test  
> revert to this state? Doing the full setup (creating a new Plone  
> site, populating it) between each test run is prohibitively expensive!
>
> I also saw zc.demostorage2, but didn't quite understand how it's  
> different or if it would help here.
>
> Cheers,
> Martin
>
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> want to work with Plone. See http://martinaspeli.net/plone-book
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