On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 12:27 PM, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi devs, > > I've started an experiment to have colocated functional tests (CFT), which > means having the functional tests located where the functional domain sources > are located instead of in XE. > > For example for the linkchecker module we have the following directories: > > xwiki-platform-linkchecker/ > |_ xwiki-platform-linkchecker-refresher (JAR) > |_ xwiki-platform-linkchecker-ui (XAR) > |_ xwiki-platform-linkchecker-tests (functional tests) > > The rationale for this was: > * Have everything about a functional domain self-contained (source and all > tests) > * Making it easy to run only tests for a given functional domain > * Move page objects to the functional domain too > > Here are some findings about this experiment: > > A - It takes about 30 seconds to generate the adhoc packaging and start > XWiki. This would be done for each module having functional tests compared to > only once if all tests were executed in XE > B- The package mojo created to generate a full packaging is quite nice and I > plan to reuse it in lots of other places in our build (distributions, > database, places where we need XWiki configuration files) > C- We will not be able to run platform builds in Maven multithreaded mode > since it would mean that several XWiki instance could be started at the same > time on the same port > D- The colocated functional test module > > Solutions/ideas: > > * One idea to overcome A and C would to have the following setup:
> ** Keep functional test modules colocated but have them generate a test JAR > ** Still allow running functional tests from the colocated module (this makes > it easy to verify no regression was introduced when making changes to a given > domain) > ** Have functional tests in XE depend on the colocated functional test module > JARs and configure Jenkins to run all functional tests from XE only +1 for this. Thanks, Marius > > * Another solution to overcome C is to auto-discover the port to use in our > XWiki startup script (and save it in a file so that the stop script can use > it). > > I think the first proposal is the best one and brings the best of the 2 > worlds. > > WDYT? > > Thanks > -Vincent > > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
