Odoo Web Testing

Use this skill to test behavior at the browser-facing seam rather than only testing isolated controller methods. Compose it with odoo-test-writer, odoo-website, and odoo-web-security.

First Move

Identify the user journey and its boundary:

• HTTP response, redirect, or rendered template.
• ORM mutation or access rule.
• Asset bundle and template loading.
• Browser interaction, form submission, or asynchronous RPC.
• User roles and companies that must be isolated.

Read BROWSER-TESTING.md for HTTP/browser flows and OWL-TESTING.md for components, services, registries, and field widgets.

Test Strategy

• Use a model test for business rules that do not require HTTP.
• Use an HTTP test for route status, auth, redirects, ownership, CSRF, and rendered content.
• Use a browser/tour test for real interaction, assets, templates, client state, and navigation.
• Use JavaScript unit tests for isolated client behavior and service/registry integration.
• Add negative tests for anonymous access, another portal user's record, invalid IDs, invalid tokens, and cross-company data.

Always Apply

• Assert externally visible behavior, not incidental HTML formatting.
• Keep fixtures small and create users with the exact groups needed.
• Make asynchronous behavior deterministic; do not add arbitrary sleeps.
• Test both success and failure paths.
• State when browser, database, or asset-bundle verification was not run.