Hi guys,
following up the discussion of Dave and Florent, I took some
initiatives into starting practical contribution of the Alfresco
(AtomPub first) test harness into Chemistry.
I refactored and reassigned to me all the Jira issues related to this
topic, basically creating subtasks to [1] and created the Alfresco
hosted SVN folder [2] where I'll start refactoring the test harness
into a contributable module. It's still empty but I plan to start work
on it by tomorrow already.
In general, the bigger picture that I would like to share with you, is
that the TCK is the base for having CMIS compatibility tests run
directly in the Maven build.
As I'm pretty much into Maven and I think it's in everyone's best
interest to make Chemistry a fully fledged TCK,
I described a bit what I think we should do, using Maven Surefire [3]
and Maven Reports [4] to easily maintain and publish compatibility
test report run against all the different CMIS implementors.
I'll start working on the Maven part as soon as the TCK is properly
decoupled from Alfresco and added to Chemistry,
but I'd really appreciate some comments, suggestions or contributions
on how to have a nice TCK functional in our project ;)
Thanks in advance!
Gab
[1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CMIS-25
[2] https://svn.alfresco.com/repos/contrib/chemistry-tck-atompub/
[3] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CMIS-38
[4] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CMIS-39
On Jul 7, 2009, at 12:05 PM, David Caruana wrote:
Ok, option a) it is. I'll focus on the atom test client first,
removing Alfresco specifics and moulding it for Chemistry.
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CMIS-25
Regards,
Dave
On 6 Jul 2009, at 18:48, Florent Guillaume wrote:
Hi David,
An extensive test suite is very welcome, thanks!
I would go for option a), and refactor later if and when we feel
tests can benefit from the Chemistry API. However there's real
value in using something totally external to Chemistry to test it,
as we may miss things otherwise. So a) is really not a problem for
a start.
Regarding the location, I propose to create a chemistry-tck maven
module to hold the tests.
And yes JIRA is best to track tasks. I haven't always used it for
the early Chemistry work when everything was still moved around a
lot, but I'll do it in the future.
Bye,
Florent
On 6 Jul 2009, at 15:57, David Caruana wrote:
Dear all,
I'd like to contribute the Alfresco CMIS client test harness to
Chemistry. It consists of many tests that cover many aspects of
the specification. I think this would be of value to the wider
CMIS community as a starting point for not only testing Chemistry
but any CMIS provider thus promoting compatibility between
providers. On a personal note, I'd like to ensure Alfresco is
tested with a suite that's community tested.
Currently, I have two harnesses, one testing AtomPub directly and
the other testing Web Services directly.
Having studied the current Chemistry code base there are
implementation options for the test harnesses.
a) Contribute as is (first removing Alfresco specifics). This
allows the full test harness to be used immediately against any
provider, but doesn't use the Chemistry stack i.e. the chemistry-
api. It also consists of an Abdera extension but that can easily
be merged with the one already there (I understand the Abdera
concerns that have been raised).
b) Refactor the tests to use chemistry-api consolidating on one
test harness. But, relies on the AtomPub client and Web Service
client implementations meaning tests are disabled while those
implementations are filled out. I have questions re: chemistry-api
which I'll post separately.
Of course, a) can be a starting point, and refactoring to b) could
take place in Chemistry.
The tests are implemented as a series of JUnit test cases.
However, that doesn't preclude custom UI for executing and
reporting the results, thus allowing for some form of CMIS
provider test kit.
Let me know of interest, and if there is a preference for a) or
b). I'm assuming a new module for housing this (as chemistry-tests
seems focused on testing low-level aspects of Chemistry).
Re: mechanics of Chemistry project. How should we track in-
development / future tasks? I assume via JIRA.
Regards,
David Caruana
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