Ovidiu,
You leave me speachless. Only two requests I can think of: - take Anteater out of the schecoon tree and move it in its own tree uner scratchpad. - write a 2 page README or xdoc that explains how to run a few tests. You can use your last response for start :) When you do that I would love to play with this framemework and promote it to people I know. Cheers, Ivelin ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ovidiu Predescu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Ivelin Ivanov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Jeff Turner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2002 11:58 PM Subject: Re: Cocoon functional testing using Anteater > On Thu, 4 Apr 2002 21:25:42 -0600, "Ivelin Ivanov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Super Extra Cocool ! > > > > Have you considered integration with Jakarta's Latka? > > http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/latka/index.html > > Jeff Turner, the co-author of Anteater, is looking into this. He's a > committer in the Latka project. Unfortunately Latka is not implemented > on top of Ant, so integration would really mean refactoring most of > the code. > > > Please put on the wish list a features: > > > > 1) allowing for POST of text/xml mime content. This will allow testing web > > services. > > This is already done. Use the contentType attribute of <httpRequest>, > or directly use the <soapRequest> which is a specialization of > <httpRequest> for SOAP requests. > > > 2) Allowing for match of XML content. This will help with WS (related to 1) > > and testing against "content" views of a web site. > > Already implemented ;-) > > Anteater was designed specifically for Web Services and Web > Applications testing. > > > A quick and dirty example: > > > > <project name="calc-test" default="calc"> > > > > <target name="calc"> > > <http description="Test the 'calc' JavaScript implementation"> > > <httpRequest href="${schecoon}/calc/${cont1}" mime="text/xml"> > > <post> > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> > > <soap:Envelope > > xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/";> > > <soap:Body> > > <GetTopIdeas > > xmlns="http://www.soapengine.com/lucin/salcentral/cidea.asmx";> > > <UserID>long</UserID> > > <Password>string</Password> > > <HTMLFormat>boolean</HTMLFormat> > > </GetTopIdeas> > > </soap:Body> > > </soap:Envelope> > > </post> > > <match> > > <xpath > > select="envelope/body/getTopIdeasResponse/GetTopIdeasResult" > > assign="result"> > > <value> > > <Item > > xmlns="http://www.soapengine.com/lucin/salcentral/cidea.asmx";> > > <IdeaID>6</r:IdeaID> > > <IdeaName>Global Positioning</IdeaName> > > <YesVote>0</YesVote> > > <NoVote>0</NoVote> > > </Item> > > </value> > > </xpath> > > </match> > > </httpRequest> > > > > > > > > > > Do you think this will make it in CVS before 2010 ;-) ? > > Already implemented ;-), although with a different syntax. > > The following sample is taken directly from the test.xml file in the > Anteater distribution: > > <target name="simple-soap"> > <property name="url" value="http://services.xmethods.net:80/soap"/> > <echo>A SOAP request will now be sent off to ${url} to retrieve a stock quote.</echo> > > <http description="Post a simple SOAP request"> > <soapRequest href="${url}" > content="test/requests/get-quote"> > <match> > <header name="Content-Length" assign="cl"/> > <responseCode value="200" assign="rc"/> > <xpath select="soap:Envelope/soap:Body/n:getQuoteResponse/Result" > assign="result"/> > <echo>Got ${cl} bytes back from server; HTTP response code ${rc}</echo> > <echo>XPath-selected the value '${result}'</echo> > </match> > </soapRequest> > </http> > </target> > > > To check for specific values just use: > > <xpath select="your/xpath/of/choice" value="specific/value"/> > > This test will succeed only if the value of the specified XPath is > exactly the specified value. You can also use <contentEquals> or > <regexp> to match on the content. > > The major difference between Anteater and any other HTTP testing > framework out there is that you can use Anteater to test the client > side, not only the server side. Most of the testing frameworks > simulate the client side only, with Anteater you can simulate the > server side as well! > > This is achieved using the <listener> task. Suppose you want to test > if your client Web service application sends the correct message to a > service. You can write something like this: > > <listener path="/my-service/"> > <match> > <method value="POST"/> > <header name="SOAPAction" value=""/> > <header name="Content-type" value="text/xml"/> > <xpath select="/soap:Envelope/soap:Body/n:getQuoteRequest"/> > <sendResponse select="responses/stock.xml"/> > </match> > </listener> > > You can setup multiple listeners to wait in parallel for requests > using <parallel>, if you don't care about the order in which the > messages are received. Or you can use <sequential> to listen for > messages only in a given order. > > Again check out the test.xml file from Anteater's distribution for > more samples. You're more than welcome to contribute suggestions for > improvements, or even code to Anteater ;-) > > Regards, > -- > Ovidiu Predescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Monitor/7464/ (GNU, Emacs, other stuff) > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Ovidiu Predescu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2002 8:14 PM > > Subject: Cocoon functional testing using Anteater > > > > > > > I've finally decided to take time to implement functional testing in > > > Cocoon using Anteater, a tool Jeff Turner and I worked on since the > > > end of last year. > > > > > > Using Anteater you can write regression tests against a deployed > > > Cocoon application. You can fire HTTP requests, and check for various > > > things in the response, using regular expressions, XPath and other > > > things. Anteater is more powerful than this, it can also act as the > > > server side, allowing you to test the client side of your application. > > > > > > For now the integration is done specifically for Schecoon, but it > > > should be trivial to adapt to the normal Cocoon. To run the tests you > > > simply type in the schecoon/ directory: > > > > > > ./build.sh test > > > > > > This spawns off Anteater on the tests/anteater/all-tests.xml file. The > > > default task in this file will search for test files located in > > > tests/anteater and will run them automatically. > > > > > > To write a test you create a "normal" Ant file, which will actually > > > contain Anteater extended tasks. The file should contain only one > > > target, whose name is the same as the file's name, except for the .xml > > > suffix. This target will be automatically picked up by the > > > all-tests.xml file and executed. Checkout the calc.xml test for an > > > example: > > > > > > > > http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/xml-cocoon2/src/scratchpad/schecoon/tests/ > > anteater/calc.xml?rev=1.3&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup > > > > > > This file tests the Calculator example written using the brand new > > > control flow layer in Schecoon. > > > > > > To run the sample, you first need to install Anteater from > > > > > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/aft/ > > > > > > At this point, the Anteater documentation is very crude, and there's > > > no Web page, besides the Sourceforge project one. If you know Ant it > > > should be fairly easy to learn the new commands introduced by > > > Anteater. > > > > > > Please let me know if you're interested in getting more info on > > > Schecoon or Anteater. > > > > > > Have fun, > > > -- > > > Ovidiu Predescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Monitor/7464/ (GNU, Emacs, other > > stuff) > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
