automatic and interactive creation of new automation starter projects

[adrian-herscu]

Current State
Currenly, creating an automation project comprises several manual steps:

1. running the qa-testing-archetype maven archetype as desacribed in https://qa-automation-starter.aherscu.dev/qa-testing-parent/qa-testing-archetype/index.html
2. initiating a git repository for the generated project directory
3. publishing it into a remote github repository

How to make it better
Provide a Create New Project somewhere on the landing page to run above steps while prompting the user for groupId, artifactId and version. The newly generated repository should initiate a preconfigured codespace environment with all project's required features for VSCode and for running the automation examples, e.g. Selenium, Appium, RabbitMQ, etc.

[adrian-herscu]

https://docs.github.com/en/codespaces/setting-up-your-project-for-codespaces/adding-a-dev-container-configuration/introduction-to-dev-containers
https://docs.github.com/en/codespaces/developing-in-a-codespace/creating-a-codespace-from-a-template
https://docs.github.com/en/codespaces/prebuilding-your-codespaces/about-github-codespaces-prebuilds

[adrian-herscu]

Selenium tests cannot run locally on a Codespaces instance because it does not support installation of Googe Chrome
https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/codespaces

Anyway, it would be useless, because developing such tests requires openning DevTools and experimenting with XPath expressions and seeing how a test runs, or doesn't, is also important.

Still, it is possible to run Selenium tests from Codespaces in remote mode, e.g. against a SauceLabs account, or have a Grid running on local machine exposed via TailScale (or some other VPN -- see https://docs.github.com/en/codespaces/developing-in-a-codespace/connecting-to-a-private-network)

[adrian-herscu]

Appears that Playright is supported...
https://nikolay-dev.medium.com/how-to-run-playwright-tests-in-github-codespaces-5ac5dcd1babd

[adrian-herscu]

Openning a Codespace in Jetbrains Gateway fails:
github/codespaces-jetbrains-feedback#118

[adrian-herscu]

For faster docker builds -- https://www.docker.com/products/build-cloud/

and apply for a license here: https://www.docker.com/community/open-source/application/

[adrian-herscu]

depends on #246