We were always passing `officer.user` to this method, so we might as
well pass the officer (since the "officer" is in the name of the method)
and call `officer.user` inside the method.
We're also calling `login_through_form_as` in order to remove the
duplication between these two methods.
As mentioned in commits like a586ba806, a7664ad81, 006128da5, b41fbfa52
and c480cdd91, accessing the database after starting the browser with
the `visit` method sometimes results in database corruption and failing
tests on our CI due to the process running the test accessing the
database after the process running the browser has started.
IMHO this is also a bad practice for system tests, since these tests
should be checking what users experience.
In these cases, however, I haven't been able to test the user
experience. For example, it looks like failed census calls for
unregistered users aren't displayed anywhere and can only be accessed by
manually checking the database. Similarly, there's no interface showing
that all the options from a poll have been deleted (which makes sense,
since we only display options in the context of their poll) or a place
showing the responsible name for a proposal.
So we're splitting the tests in two, with the controller test running
the database checks.
The default `date_select` used in fields presents an accessibility
issue, because in generates three select controls but only one label.
That means that there are two controls without a label.
So we're using a date field instead. This type is field is supported by
about 99% of the browsers, and we've already got JavaScript code
converting this field to a jQuery UI datepicker in case the browser
doesn't support date fields.
Note that, since we no longer need to parse the three date fields into
one, we can simplify the code in both the models and the tests.
Another slight improvement is that, previously, we couldn't restrict the
month and day controls in order to set the minimum date, so the maximum
selectable date was always the 31st of December of the year set by the
minimum age setting. As seen in the component test, now that we use only
one field, we can set a specific date as the maximum one.
Changing the database after the process running the browser has started
is proving to be one of the reasons tests are failing sometimes, so
we're reducing the number of times were that happens. In this case, we
were changing a setting.
JavaScript is used by about 98% of web users, so by testing without it
enabled, we're only testing that the application works for a very
reduced number of users.
We proceeded this way in the past because CONSUL started using Rails 4.2
and truncating the database between JavaScript tests with database
cleaner, which made these tests terribly slow.
When we upgraded to Rails 5.1 and introduced system tests, we started
using database transactions in JavaScript tests, making these tests much
faster. So now we can use JavaScript tests everywhere without critically
slowing down our test suite.
By using real XML responses developers will be able to understand better
how the integration works (the data flow), and the correspondency between
`remote_census` settings and their place at a real XML response.
As `stubbed_responses` methods were removed from the model layer now the
stubbing part should be managed from the test environment code so also
added a new helper module `RemoteCensusSetup` that can be used anywhere
where we need to call the web service.
Co-Authored-By: Javi Martín <javim@elretirao.net>
