Thanks Brian. That is helpful to know that Ant or Maven is in fact required.

On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 12:42 PM, Brian <[email protected]> wrote:

> @Richard - FlexMojos and the Ant task for FlexUnit 4 both work by
> creating a test SWF which establishes a socket connection with its
> spawning process to report the results of the tests being executed.
> In FlexMojos, I believe it's done using the unit testing support
> library and in Ant it's done by attaching the CIListener to the
> FlexUnit 4 Core.  Unfortunately, there is no way for the Flash Player
> to write to disk since it operates in the sandbox of the browser.
> Unless FlexMonkey's AIR application has the ability to execute a
> series of tests and output test results to their respective files,
> you'll need to use either Maven or Ant and their respective plugins to
> execute your tests and have results written to disk.  The test SWF by
> itself is not enough to execute a test run.
>
> FWIW - You may want to post this question on the FlexUnit or
> FlexMonkey forums for more ideas, although I'll probably be the one
> answering your question on the FlexUnit forums.  Let me if I can help
> with any of your questions.
>
> -Brian
>
> On Jun 15, 2:51 pm, Richard Rodseth <[email protected]> wrote:
> > My QA colleagues are trying to understand how to execute FlexUnit 4-based
> > functional tests on a maven-free machine that will have the Flash Player
> and
> > a browser. There are two classes of tests
> >
> > 1) Hand-written API tests using HTTPService
> > 2) Tests generated by FlexMonkey.
> >
> > I realize this is not the focus of maven/flex-mojos but we need to
> > understand what build artifacts to create and copy to the test
> environment,
> > as well as how to invoke them
> >
> > It would be helpful if I understood what Flex-Mojos does in the test
> phase
> > (for regular unit tests). Are the tests and the classes they import
> compiled
> > into a single swf that also includes the test runner, or does the test
> > runner load a sub-SWF?
> >
> > Thanks for any tips.
>
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