Re: testing and subclassing

[Jason Novotny]

Hi Vinent,

   Thanks for the response-- I guess what I'm asking is how can I reuse 
test code from one test as a fixture for another test in my test suite?
  
   Thanks, Jason

Vincent Massol wrote:

Jason,

I don't think I quite understand. In any case:

- if you want to group test together, you should use a junit test suite
(see the junit website)
- each test must be independent of the other. Only the fixture can be
shared through setUp. Tests that share the same fixture are grouped
together in a TestCase
-Vincent

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Jason Novotny [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 09 September 2003 17:42
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: testing and subclassing
Hi,

   I'm trying to use Cactus/Junit to test my scenario. I have one
   

test
 

that simply just checks that it can instantiate and init my servlet
object. The next test then would use this method in its setUp() method
before testing methods for trying to log a root user in from the
database. Next I need a TestSetupUsers class that woudl then subclass
   

to
 

use the initialization of the base test and the testLoginRootUser test
of the SetupRootUserTest. So what I tried doing initially was
   

something
 

like this:

   MyServletTest

         testInitServlet()

   TestSetupRoot extends MyServletTest

         setUp() {
            // uses super.testInitServlet()
         }
         testLoginRotUser()

   TestSetupUsers extends TestSetupRoot

      setUp() {
         // uses super.setUp()and super.testInitServlet()
      }
      testCreateUsers()

Now, I look thru and I see these tests are no good because of the
subclassing. The TestSetupUsers is also testing all the test* methods
   

of
 

the superclasses. I feel like what I'm doing must be somewhat common
   

to
 

other projects-- I would be very interested in any discussions of how
   

to
 

make unit testing dependencies manageable.

   Thanks, Jason



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