[PrivacyBadger] Chrome browser automation for privacy badger enhancement

[Peter Eckersley]

+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.
> 

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