David, I've added a patch to Jira for this... https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-677
- Andrew On Tue, 2007-01-30 at 13:31 -0700, David E. Jones wrote: > Andrew, > > Okay, I see where you're going with that. It sounds like a great idea > and very do-able, and useful for many things other than just testing. > > BTW, In general I do really like this approach of writing unit tests > as services so we can take advantage of all of the flexibility and > efficiency that we get for the main application code. > > If you (or anybody!) wants to work on this, please do! I'll try to > bring it up during the dev conference too as we're working on testing > infrastructure if it hasn't been implemented by then. > > -David > > > On Jan 30, 2007, at 6:37 AM, Andrew Sykes wrote: > > > David, > > > > I think we're talking about different things here, perhaps I should > > detail the suggestion a bit more clearly... > > > > The idea was to have a page that allowed you to run a service > > synchronously much like the "schedule service", however, it would then > > display the results tabularly in the browser. For each value pair > > displayed, there would be a checkbox to allow you to save the value in > > the session, then when you returned to run another service if the > > one of > > the input params matched one of the previous saved values, it would > > automatically populate the input box. > > > > This would allow people relying predominantly on a browser based test > > tool to run pretty fancy multi-service sequences. > > > > I admit, it does sound a bit hacky, but I have a rough draft which I'm > > using for some testing and it does make certain things a lot easier. > > > > Can you give me your thoughts please? > > > > - Andrew > > > > > > On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 20:35 -0700, David E. Jones wrote: > >> I'd really prefer to do what has been proposed as a best practice and > >> write tests using the same OFBiz framework tools that we use to write > >> applications, like simple-methods, services, etc... > >> > >> But yes, it is possible to call a service through a web request and > >> there is one in the webtools wecapp that has been there for years. > >> The trick is you have to set export="true" for all services called > >> this way, which is another reason to do logic-level test (including > >> service calls) in a more black-box way, especially if they are not > >> for testing things that are intended to be available externally. > >> > >> -David > >> > >> > >> On Jan 29, 2007, at 4:01 AM, Andrew Sykes wrote: > >> > >>> Assuming an automated web browser type technology is the way to > >>> go for > >>> testing... > >>> > >>> What does everyone think of having an option to run a service > >>> synchronously from webtools? > >>> > >>> This would allow a lot of clever asserts from the test tool? > >>> Without the > >>> need to make the tool dispatcher aware? Would this be an adequate > >>> approach? > >>> -- > >>> Kind Regards > >>> Andrew Sykes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>> Sykes Development Ltd > >>> http://www.sykesdevelopment.com > >>> > >> > > -- > > Kind Regards > > Andrew Sykes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sykes Development Ltd > > http://www.sykesdevelopment.com > > > -- Kind Regards Andrew Sykes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sykes Development Ltd http://www.sykesdevelopment.com
