PhantomJS Support

[thebyrd]

Here's a good blogpost on someone unsuccessful trying to get it to work. I don't know enough about the internals to know why it doesn't work, but I'd be happy to work on it if someone could give me a high level explanation.

[robdodson]

My understanding is that Phantom is based on a very very old version of Webkit and would need to go through a pretty big update to be made compatible. I think there's work on a PhantomJS v2 or something but don't know much more about it.

[thebyrd]

ah, that makes sense. No worries then. Do you know of a Chromium based alternative?

[robdodson]

Not off the top of my head. We've been pursuing testing in real browsers
(or VMs at least) using SauceLabs (
https://github.com/PolymerLabs/sauce-element)

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[thebyrd]

sounds good. Thanks!
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[lavelle]

Can you guys recommend a good way to run functional tests on a Polymer app? Casper (which uses Phantom) and Zombie (which uses JSDOM) don't work because they don't have all the features that Polymer needs.

I really don't want to introduce Selenium's Java dependency to my project, and Dalek is too unstable for production right now.

[robdodson]

For the sauce-element, I write mocha tests and tell grunt-saucelabs to run them on the SauceLabs VMs. That's the best solution I've found so far. You could use Karma to run the tests locally (and potentially on saucelabs) but I haven't dug into that too much.

[addyosmani]

Atm, your best bet is probably going to be waiting for Phantom V3, which may indeed include a full architectural rewrite that switches over to using Blink. It's unclear what the timeline for it is, so until then attempting to use a VM solution may well be the way forward.