On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 12:20, Niklas Gustavsson<[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 10:05 AM, Bernd Fondermann<[email protected]> 
> wrote:
>> Niklas Gustavsson wrote:
>> This test perfectly demonstrates the pros and cons of integration
>> testing of socket based protocols.
>>
>> All test run within about 5.3 seconds on my machine, probably less on yours.
>>
>> The integration test _alone_ takes 5 seconds! (Which makes me want to
>> disable it. Suggestion: Can we move integration tests to a separate
>> source folder so they can easily be excluded  from running?)
>
> Yes, either we can move it to a separate source folder (activated by a
> different Maven profile as suggested by Emmanuel) or to a different
> module. I'm all for doing this if we decide to keep doing integration
> tests (which I think we should).

+1

>
>> Why is that? The tests sets up the whole server infrastructure. This
>> adds overhead to the test, but is not the cause for the long running
>> time. It's Thread.sleep(5000). This is a common problem with testing
>> async stuff. Maybe we can reduce this to 100 ms, but this might cause
>> spurious test failures for some, which are hard to reproduce.
>
> I don't think we do a Thread.sleep() anywhere in the integration
> tests, or am I missing something? Instead we use Smacks listener
> support, with a timeout of 5000 ms (in the sendSync method). Doing
> that, I think we return as soon as possible (or at least as soon as
> Smack lets us).

My apologies, bad observation. I just stumbled upon it because it took
long (longer than the other stuff).
You are right.

>> A better approach - if possible - would be to have a listener kicking in
>> when the async processing is finished, causing some kind of continuation
>> to finish of the test.
>
> This is what we're already doing, right?
>
>> In general I'd stick with my original statement to discourage using this
>> kinds of tests for handlers.
>
> I find these tests have been quite powerful so far, detecting two or
> three bugs in Vysper already.

+1. Do you have bug reports?

  Bernd

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