HTML Testbench 0.1
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I'm pleased to announce the initial release of Testbench for HTML-based UI files. This is, in effect, our first step towards a fully web-based Volity client. As with SVG Testbench, this program allows for incremental testing of a Volity user interface while you develop it. Once everything works as you expect in Testbench, the UI is ready to be loaded into a Volity HTML
client for playtesting.
The hitch here is that there is no Volity HTML client to test against right now. It may seem strange to release a development tool targeting a client that doesn't exist yet, but since Testbench is really just a stripped-down, offline version of a full client, its development ended up being a natural proof of concept. Furthermore, since the Volity's UI programming API is stable, anything that works in Testbench today should continue to work once plugged into a real client later on.
You can play with an online demonstration of HTML Testbench here. The downloadable application includes that Tic Tac Toe example, with easy-to-examine source code.
Sadly, it doesn't work in MSIE yet. Compatibility with all major browsers is early on the to-do list. In the meantime, we recommend Firefox. (With the Firebug plug-in installed, it's among the best web development platforms you can find.)
You can find testbench in our subversion repository, in /trunk/webclient/testbench. Here is its full README. You may also download it as a zip file here.
Feel free to post in the forums or contact me directly with any comments or questions about this project. Enjoy!
And now, back to money-making mode. I am feeling antsy about being away from it so long. This is a feature.
volity_forums]I'm pleased to announce the initial release of Testbench for HTML-based UI files. This is, in effect, our first step towards a fully web-based Volity client. As with SVG Testbench, this program allows for incremental testing of a Volity user interface while you develop it. Once everything works as you expect in Testbench, the UI is ready to be loaded into a Volity HTML
client for playtesting.
The hitch here is that there is no Volity HTML client to test against right now. It may seem strange to release a development tool targeting a client that doesn't exist yet, but since Testbench is really just a stripped-down, offline version of a full client, its development ended up being a natural proof of concept. Furthermore, since the Volity's UI programming API is stable, anything that works in Testbench today should continue to work once plugged into a real client later on.
You can play with an online demonstration of HTML Testbench here. The downloadable application includes that Tic Tac Toe example, with easy-to-examine source code.
Sadly, it doesn't work in MSIE yet. Compatibility with all major browsers is early on the to-do list. In the meantime, we recommend Firefox. (With the Firebug plug-in installed, it's among the best web development platforms you can find.)
You can find testbench in our subversion repository, in /trunk/webclient/testbench. Here is its full README. You may also download it as a zip file here.
Feel free to post in the forums or contact me directly with any comments or questions about this project. Enjoy!
And now, back to money-making mode. I am feeling antsy about being away from it so long. This is a feature.