[PrivacyBadger] Chrome browser automation for privacy badger enhancement

[Cooper Quintin]

Great! I will take a look at whats up there so far (with the
understanding that it's a WIP).
I'm not suprised selenium doesn't have window/tab stuff. It also didn't
have any way to use the same browser profile more than once until a
couple of days ago. Now you can tell it not to delete the temporary
browser profile that it creates, but only if you are using firefox. And
only in the .net selenium library so far...

- Cooper

On 12/03/2014 02:51 PM, Alexei Miagkov wrote:
> Hey everybody!
> 
> Here's the WIP Chameleon automation
> repo: https://github.com/ghostwords/chameleon-crawler. Still have to
> figure out how to communicate Chameleon's findings back to Selenium
> successfully. Will work on that next. By the way, doesn't it seem crazy
> Selenium still doesn't have built-in tab/window management? Yikes!
> 
> On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 2:26 PM, Cooper Quintin <cooperq at eff.org
> <mailto:cooperq at eff.org>> wrote:
> 
> 
>     Alexei,
>     Thats great, I'm excited to have you on board! As for testing, we
>     already have some Selenium tests for privacy badger chrome which Gunes
>     wrote. They are pretty extensive and are, IMO, the easiest way to
>     accomplish your task--especially since the bootstrapping has already
>     been done. If you have an argument for not using Selenium let me know,
>     but otherwise I think selenium is excellent.
> 
>     - Cooper
>     On 11/23/2014 08:41 PM, Peter Eckersley wrote:
>     > +PrivacyBadger list.
>     >
>     > Alexei will be doing some work to enhance and port anti-fingerprinting
>     > features from Chameleon to Privacy Badger.
>     >
>     > Does anyone have opinions about which Chrome browser automation
>     tools we
>     > should be using for Privacy Badger crawling & testing work?
>     >
>     > On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 10:01:11PM -0500, Alexei Miagkov wrote:
>     >
>     >> For testing the heuristic, I think we should automate Chrome with
>     Chameleon
>     >> preloaded to visit a predefined list of websites and compare
>     actual to
>     >> expected results. Any suggestions for the automation setup? I
>     have some
>     >> experience with Selenium/chromedriver, but I wonder if there is
>     something
>     >> easier for testing a Chrome extension ... Remember, this has to
>     be a real
>     >> Chrome browser (need Chrome's exact V8 featureset, extensions
>     support),
>     >> which means things PhantomJS are out.
>     >>
>     >
> 
>