At the May 28th meeting of the Chicago JavaScript Meetup, I gave the following presentation on trends in web development, and how it’ll affect testing.
The talk’s titled “The Future of Web App Testing and How to Stop It”. The first part was a brief history of the Selenium project. In the second part, I talked about the canvas tag and canvas based apps.
The punchline is that canvas-tag based apps are untestable using traditional DOM-based introspection techniques. Developers need to be aware to make their canvas-based apps testable in their designs. And yes, canvas is the future of the web, and therefore the future of web testing.
