diff -r d9ebb391782c -r c0ee416040fa doc/book/en/devrepo/testing.rst
--- a/doc/book/en/devrepo/testing.rst	Wed Sep 15 10:54:25 2010 +0200
+++ b/doc/book/en/devrepo/testing.rst	Wed Sep 15 11:00:55 2010 +0200
@@ -184,6 +184,61 @@
             mail = MAILBOX[1]
             self.assertEquals(mail.subject, '[data] yes')
 
+Visible actions tests
+`````````````````````
+
+It is easy to write unit tests to test actions which are visible to
+user or to a category of users. Let's take an example in the
+`conference cube`_.
+
+.. _`conference cube`: http://www.cubicweb.org/project/cubicweb-conference
+.. sourcecode:: python
+
+    class ConferenceActionsTC(CubicWebTC):
+
+        def setup_database(self):
+            self.conf = self.create_entity('Conference',
+                                           title=u'my conf',
+                                           url_id=u'conf',
+                                           start_on=date(2010, 1, 27),
+                                           end_on = date(2010, 1, 29),
+                                           call_open=True,
+                                           reverse_is_chair_at=chair,
+                                           reverse_is_reviewer_at=reviewer)
+
+        def test_admin(self):
+            req = self.request()
+            rset = req.execute('Any C WHERE C is Conference')
+            self.assertListEquals(self.pactions(req, rset),
+                                  [('workflow', workflow.WorkflowActions),
+                                   ('edit', confactions.ModifyAction),
+                                   ('managepermission', actions.ManagePermissionsAction),
+                                   ('addrelated', actions.AddRelatedActions),
+                                   ('delete', actions.DeleteAction),
+                                   ('generate_badge_action', badges.GenerateBadgeAction),
+                                   ('addtalkinconf', confactions.AddTalkInConferenceAction)
+                                   ])
+            self.assertListEquals(self.action_submenu(req, rset, 'addrelated'),
+                                  [(u'add Track in_conf Conference object',
+                                    u'http://testing.fr/cubicweb/add/Track'
+                                    u'?__linkto=in_conf%%3A%(conf)s%%3Asubject&'
+                                    u'__redirectpath=conference%%2Fconf&'
+                                    u'__redirectvid=' % {'conf': self.conf.eid}),
+                                   ])
+
+You just have to execute a rql query corresponding to the view you want to test,
+and to compare the result of
+:meth:`~cubicweb.devtools.testlib.CubicWebTC.pactions` with the list of actions
+that must be visible in the interface. This is a list of tuples. The first
+element is the action's `__regid__`, the second the action's class.
+
+To test actions in submenu, you just have to test the result of
+:meth:`~cubicweb.devtools.testlib.CubicWebTC.action_submenu` method. The last
+parameter of the method is the action's category. The result is a list of
+tuples. The first element is the action's title, and the second element the
+action's url.
+
+
 .. _automatic_views_tests:
 
 Automatic views testing