However, we haven’t spent the time yet to pretty the ol’ girl up for public consumption (which we totally should), so I decided to just use the basic core of SimpleTest while developing (as a personal project) the third iteration of the verge 2d game engine’s website (wip).

I didn’t know what I got myself into.

Here’s some hard-earned knowledge I wrestled from the core of this beasty. These simple statements represent hours of shouting, grunting, and crying defiantly into the rain-filled sky daring a cruel god to strike me down.

SimpleTest Lessons

1. assertFieldById() and assertFieldByName() do not work on html input elements which are improperly placed outside of <form> tags.

2. There do not appear to be out-of-the-box accessors for field values. I had to code up my own getFieldById().

3. If an element has an id, but not a name, it’s value will be inaccessible.

This list is not exhaustive

Learn these lessons, fair reader, so that you may not stub thy code-toe upon SimpleTest! And one day maybe we’ll get around to releasing IMVU’s Sweet Suite of Not-So-Simpletest.

Several hours of work, however, were invested into investigating why I couldn’t get variables from simpletest by id.  To make a long story short, form element values in simpletest won’t be accessible if the element you want is in a malformed <form>.  In this case, there was no form tag at all, and so I was SOL until I tried actually making my html valid.

Feh.  Valid HTML.

Anyways, now the insidious bastard that was test_admins_can_edit_anything() passes.  Revisions 161 and 162 of the beta vrpg codebase happened this week.  I believe this is the last of my major infrastructure blocks, now, so the rest of the forums tests should go much quicker next time I sit down and tackle fleshing out the functionality.