Any news guys ? Again I'm not completely against adding something to Cactus if it integrates properly in the Cactus vision :-)
I believe the missing bit that you're looking for is what exist in HttpUnit : the notion of WebConversation. I'm not sure how that would play with Cactus though ... -Vincent > -----Original Message----- > From: Bill Laird [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 21 February 2002 19:31 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Fw: Doing scenario based testing > > Hi Rajesh - your scenario testing , aka 'functional testing' is something > that there is a growing interest in the junit/cactus community. Shane has > done some good stuff in the area of dynamic proxies with some colleagues > of > his (see http://www.gnufoo.org/junit/index.html ), which open up Junit to > be > more flexible, which is critical to those of us who want to use Junit (and > thus cactus) to do functional testing. > > I say we spec out a little project here and collaborate and get something > done. Vincent has shown me where some of the code changes need to go in > cactus. > > Cheers, > Bill > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Rajesh Kanade" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Monday, February 18, 2002 7:43 PM > Subject: Doing scenario based testing > > > Hi All > > I am new to cactus and new to testing arena itself. > > My company writes web based applications ( using MVC ) and I am looking at > automating testing at various levels.The server side code is entirely > return > in Java ( no EJB ). > > I am trying to come up with a framework ( or use one if it exists already > ) > so that we can test our application at various levels like > class level, component level, sub system , system ( all this done without > UI > in picture ) > So for a class level I can use JUnit to do my testing. > My idea was to build upon this to do component testing & then reuse these > stuff as I move higher in the chain to do sub system and system testing. > > I was planning on doing something like this. > I am taking an auction example where we wanted to test a ( auction > creation > / bidding )scenario > > So let's say we wanted to create company, users, set up an auction, Bid on > the auction, Approve Winner. > > So in this case a Scenario specification Definition file could look like > > CreateCompany <DataFile to Use> > create Users<DataFile to Use> > Create Auction<DataFile to User> > Bid1<DataFile to User> > Bid2<DataFile to Use> > <parallel> > Bid3<DataFile to Use> > .. > Bidn<DataFile to Use> > <parallel> > > ApproveWinner<DataFile to Use> > > The above file could be XML or csv. > Probably it needs more parameters like expected result from this step etc. > > For each of the activities( each step in the scenario file ) there is a > executeActivity meta data file which is registered with the engine which > tells the test engine what it needs to do when it encounters a specific > activity > So for CreateCompany activity this file would specify something like > execute create() method com.mycompany.auction.Company object . > > Now using jave reflection the test engine can go and execute this method > with the data being read from the datafile specified to it from the > scenario > file . > > One thing I have to think in detailed is how do I chain these activities > pass results from one activity to another one etc. Might be we can have a > vector of objects passed from one activity to another. > > There are some engine specific tags like <parallel> which indicate that > all > the steps embedded in those tags should be run con currently. > > Advantages of having such a engine are > Theritically we just identify the activities in a product & specify the > execution details for this activity and we are ready to go. > > > My questions to you all is > Can I use Cactus to achive some thing like this. > Is there a commercial or open source tool to achieve something like this. > > > Thanx > > Rajesh > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Join the world's largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. > http://www.hotmail.com > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:cactus-user- > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:cactus-user- > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
