Now that we have defined (in a previous email) how to define what is the
type of a given test case, we also need to define how you will tell Cactus
to run all MO tests, or all IC tests, or simply all the tests ...
Obviously running an MO test and running an IC tests is different in term of
deployment. So we will need to have the ability to say to Cactus : "only run
MO tests". This is useful when debugging in an IDE for instance. Then later,
in an Ant build file, we will package a test war and copy it the servlet
engine webapps directory and we'll need to tell Cactus to run all IC tests
for instance...
How do we do this ?
* Solution 1 : Through a java -D parameter
If we don't pass any parameter, it means all types of tests will be ran. In
order to tell Cactus only to run MO tests for instance, we will need to
start JUnit, passing it a java parameter, as in "java -classpath
[...] -Dcactus.type=MO junit.textui.TestRunner MyTestCaseClass". Or if you
are running in an IDE, you'll simply have to add "-Dcactus.type=MO" to the
java parameter list.
That's of course if you'd like to mix kind of tests in the same test case
class file. If you separate your test case class files then you simply need
to group the tests you want to run in a given test suite and that's all ! No
need to define any java parameter.
* Solution 2 : do nothing
i.e. always run all the tests that are in the test suite. So if you wish to
be able to only run MO tests, then you would need to define them in their
own Test case class and add this class to a suite that will be used run MO
tests only. Same for other types of tests.
-Vincent
