Use Splinter for web tests

[techtonik]

Currently I don't know who knows how our web test work, because if is based on JavaScript stack. The Splinter allows to write the same stuff in Pythonic way.

https://splinter.readthedocs.org/en/latest/index.html

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[chadwhitacre]

I started looking into this, and it's an interesting option. We have very few jstests currently. The main piece of work would be refactoring the Python test infrastructure to provide a browser instance, and, in particular, wiring up authentication (the in-process testing harness and the jstests both provide examples of this). Porting over the five tests we currently have would be trivial, and if we did so we could have a single test suite, which would greatly facilitate in-browser tests. Good idea! :-)

!m @techtonik

[chadwhitacre]

Having the js test infrastructure in Python would make it easier for our Python-centric team to fix problems like #2953. Other jstest issues: #3069 #3493.

[chadwhitacre]

@deivid-rodriguez Any interest in tackling this? :)

[deivid-rodriguez]

Yes! I don't know how long it will take to acquire the knowledge to tackle this, but I will definitely keep this on my radar and give it a try!

[chadwhitacre]

PR in #4079.

[chadwhitacre]

🎉