Douglas,

Thanks for the info.  It looks like we are going to impliment the same
strategy.  Thanks again.

Randy

On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 10:21 PM, Douglas Knudsen
<[email protected]>wrote:

> I saw that about using Air. Air runs the same flashplayer as Flex with
> some extra API and yes a little more lax in security areas. Up to you
> how stringent you need to be, eh?  That said a way to do this in Flex
> proper is to use the debug player and have some code to parse
> flashlog.txt where flexunit results show up. I've seen python code
> doing this well, but unfortunately can't share it. The code would do
> its thing then write a 0 or 1 to a file that Ant could open to
> determine pass or fail.
>
> HTH
>
> DK
>
> On 2/3/09, Randall Alexander <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I have been looking at this same issue for longer than I care to admit
> and I
> > am at a sticking point and wanted to see if someone could help me:
> >
> > I am putting together my teams build script using ant.  I have gotten the
> > basic build to work (i.e. it compiles the .swc for us...RSLs will be
> next).
> > However my issue is when I try to integrate with flex unit.  I have
> antennae
> > faithfully building the suite class and running them according to the
> > example (tried about 3-4 different ways on it).  However when I exectute
> the
> > unit tests, I get no report, just an indicator if all the test cases ran
> > successfully.  After a bit more research and trying the obvious dawned on
> > me, that the reason why is because it is a flash web application, which
> due
> > to security, can not write to the local file system.  (or am I missing
> > something with the flex unit in the ant script?)  I saw a trick where
> people
> > were compiling the flash code into an air application.  However the
> argument
> > was being made that this does not really simulate the enviroment the user
> > will use (management may be willing to accept this one).  Furthermore
> they
> > are saying (reading into the statement a little bit) that you could not
> > trust the results 100% because air is different (this is the real issue).
> > What I am not sure of, is how different?  I understand that air is
> deployed
> > locally, security is a bit looser because the user basically flags it as
> a
> > trusted app upon install...ect.  But what I am not sure is how much of an
> > issue it will be.  For example if we write the code flex code and run the
> > tests in air but deploy it as a flash web application will the same
> sequence
> > of tests have the same results (other than security issues will there be
> any
> > difference for the same method)?  From what I can tell in theory, the
> same
> > code in flex web app should faithfully behave the same in air (not
> > neccessarly the other way...again due to security) but don't know if
> there
> > are gotch ya's that are going to crawl up at me.  I can of course have
> the
> > swc with the unit tests launch and look at the results and detailed
> > information that way but it defeats the point of automating our unit
> testing
> > with our builds a bit (we prefer a detailed report emailed to everyone
> when
> > our unit tests fail in a integration/QA/production build as opposed to
> > failing the unit tests without know why).
> >
> > Or have I have traveled down the wrong path?  Please let me know if I
> have.
> >
> > Any help would be appreciated.
> >
> > Randy
> >
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