[HTTPS-Everywhere] Weekly GSoC IRC Meeting

[Yan Zhu]

Let's try to have an IRC meeting this week, although maybe shorter than
usual. Does 10AM PST work? (I can't do later)

-Yan

On 06/27/2014 01:51 PM, Yan Zhu wrote:
> An exciting thing happened this week, which is that Zack and I figured
> out a very clean way to add tests for the main extension code in HTTPS
> Everywhere (without having a custom build of Firefox / xpcshell / pain).
> 
> If you want to test it out or add some tests, merge this pull request
> into your HTTPS Everywhere repo:
> https://github.com/EFForg/https-everywhere/pull/338. Instructions for
> running tests are here:
> https://github.com/EFForg/https-everywhere/blob/feature/tests/https-everywhere-tests/README.md.
> 
> The tests are written in Javascript and have the usual js assertion
> semantics so they should be pretty easy to add:
> https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/SDK/Low-Level_APIs/test_assert
> 
> (You can also write tests for SSL Observatory -
> Components.classes["@eff.org/ssl-observatory;1"].getService(Components.interfaces.nsISupports).wrappedJSObject
> gives you access to its js object!)
> 
> -Yan
> 
> On 06/27/2014 12:26 PM, Red wrote:
>> Hello everyone,
>> Yan and I have just concluded our meeting for this week. I have already
>> updated the gist containing my notes to include this week's:
>> https://gist.github.com/redwire/b62f03905a826e79947a#week-7
>>
>> In summary, the primary focus of this meeting's discussion has been
>> centered around testing.  I have been working on a new extension
>> (https://github.com/redwire/https-everywhere-testing) to test HTTPS
>> Everywhere functionality.
>>
>> In the coming week, I will be adapting this extension to the Firefox
>> addon SDK, so that we can take advantage of the testing utilities and
>> libraries it includes. I will also be working on integrating these tests
>> into the HTTPS Everywhere build script and, time providing, writing
>> tests for the ruleset update verification I had been implementing
>> previously.
>>
>> If you have any thoughts or ideas, please don't hesitate to share them!
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Zack
>>
>>
>>
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Yan Zhu  <yan at eff.org>, <yan at torproject.org>
Staff Technologist
Electronic Frontier Foundation                  https://www.eff.org
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