Cactus is a testing framework for testing j2ee components servlet, ejb and jsp (pseudo servlet). It's strength is that it provides integration testing where the tests run in the container, and your j2ee component recieves all the services that the container provides.
James Black wrote:
Hello,HttpUnit is a great developer oriented unit testing framework for testing application use case scenerios. IIRC, this is typically called black box testing, and generally provides the greatest "bang for your buck" with respect to one test per lines of code tested.
I am starting to work with cactus, as I have an application to unit test that has various jsp pages and java classes in the classes directory.
In order to do the tests the program needs to be logged into the application framework first, and that causes me some difficulty.
I know how to log in using httpunit, but I don't know how to use that
WebConversation instance for the rest of the unit test.
In this instance, struts is the servlet and would be the object being tested. I haven't used the struts framework and am not familiar with the strutsunit testing framwork. I have used turbine, and we found HttpUnit to be much easier to test our action classes as well as our web interface. We also used a mock object implementation for testing our turbine actions (which contained way too much business logic), but the mock object approach we used seemed to be way too much overkill.
How do I approach this? I hope my question makes sense.
Also, how do I integrate in the strutsunittest framework with cactus, or
do I need to use different frameworks for the different parts? It would seem
that I use httpunit to test the browser side, strutsunit for all of the
forms and cactus to test the parts that are called by the struts action
controller.
Thank you for your response.
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