vmassol 2003/10/24 06:49:27
Modified: documentation/docs/xdocs index.xml goals.xml
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</li>
<li>
<strong>Type 2: integration unit testing</strong>. Cactus is
- typically in this category (I'll let you judge if it is the best or
+ typically in this category (we'll let you judge if it is the best or
not :)). These tests will exercise the interactions with the
container.
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@@ -102,12 +102,12 @@
</p>
<p>
Cactus was developed to fit Type 2 but also to be a very good
- compromise for Type 1 and 3, with the idea that it is much easier to
+ compromise for types 1 and 3, with the idea that it is much easier to
have to write tests for a single framework than for several ! Moreover,
you can never fully test your code. We believe Cactus provides a middle
ground that provides a high confidence that your code will run when
deployed. However, it is your choice and you can use Cactus only for
- Type 2 if you wish.
+ type 2 if you wish.
</p>
</section>
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other type of components.
</li>
<li>
- Try to be the preferred Jakarta unit testing framework. This may
- mean providing specific extensions to ease writing unit test for
- Jakarta frameworks (like for Struts, Turbine, ...),
- </li>
- <li>
- To be the framework of reference for in-container unit testing
- strategy
+ Allow fine-grained continuous testing of all files making up
+ an application: source code but also meta-data files (such as
+ deployment descriptors, etc) through an in-container approach.
+ Integration work is costly and Cactus tries to spread this load
+ by doing it during development in an automated way.
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</ul>
@@ -65,7 +63,7 @@
Decouple the Cactus framework into the core and its "plugins". This
means to publish a public API and a public SPI. The SPI would allow
to support plugin for testing different type of components (Servlet,
- Entity EJB, Struts Action, etc).
+ Entity EJB, Struts Actions, etc).
</li>
</ul>
@@ -126,22 +124,18 @@
(Service Provider Interface) against which a generic unit testing
framework could be plugged, thus leaving the implementation details
to an external framework and only providing maybe a generic
- and simple implementation. Thus, the goal of Cactus will be
- to help specify needed container API/SPI for unit testing,
+ and simple implementation. Thus, one goal of Cactus is to help
+ specify needed container API/SPI for unit testing,
i.e. create
an additional service of the container: a "unit-testing service"
(in addition to the existing Security, Transaction, Life Cycle, ...
- Services). As Cactus and Tomcat projects are both hosted on Jakarta
- it might be a good test ground for this kind of work. Of course,
- the first step would be to convince Tomcat developers that unit
- testing (and testing in general) is indeed a need to be
- addressed in the container itself. The ultimate
+ Services). The ultimate
goal will be reached when this new API/SPI is accepted and become
a de jure standard. It would then be time to think about
integrating it into the Servlet Specifications
(or other components -like EJBs -
specifications). Agreed, this far-streched at the current time
- but it is the Cactus vision !
+ but it is the Cactus vision!
</li>
</ul>
@@ -149,7 +143,7 @@
</section>
- <section title="Feedback needed !">
+ <section title="Feedback needed!">
<p>
Cactus is an open source project where everyone is free to participate
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