Gert, that makes sense for me.
Lars On Thursday 05 June 2008 09:53:58 Gert Vanthienen wrote: > L.S., > > I agree it would be good thing to make a distinction between unit tests > and integration tests. We should probably have both of them: unit tests > could use the mock test framework and for the integration tests, we > should keep on using the containers. > > For the integration tests, wouldn't it be possible to write most of them > in a form that allows to test them on both versions of the container > automatically. Another idea (probably slightly out-of-scope for now)= > we could look into is doing multiple integration tests with a single > container instance. The Maven itests should allow us to: > - start a container in pre-integration-test > - deploy/test/undeploy for a set of integration tests > - stop the container in post-integration-test > > This should reduce the overhead of starting/stopping the container over > and over again, making the tests easier/faster to run -- I know the > container is lightweight thing, but it should still make a difference, no? > > Regards, > > Gert > > Chris Custine wrote: > >> I don't really see why we should not continue using the containers for > >> unit testing. It would be a major work to remove the references to > >> the container, or even to rewrite all the tests using mocks instead of > >> the containers. Furthermore, booting smx3 is very fast and > >> lightweight. > > > > I agree with Guillaume here. I definitely want to continue integration > > tests inside the container. I was mainly talking about adding a way to > > test against specific versions of the container or maybe even multiple > > version in the same build? Currently the components inherit the version > > of the container from the parent pom, and we will have to make this a > > configurable property for selecting the container version when running > > tests. > > > > If anything, a mock strategy could be in addition to the itests, but not > > sure if I would drop integration tests. > > > >>> Bruce > >>> --
