Hi Holly, Just a quick reply, did you consider using NativeContainer ? Just because it simplifies debugging really. On general approaches, i will reply in detail tomorrow. (Soccer now ;) Cheers, Toni
On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 9:57 PM, Holly Cummins < holly.k.cumm...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > When running pax-exam tests, I find most of my failures are caused by > bundles failing to start for one reason or another. I have two strategies > for figuring out the issues, but I don't think either is quite what I'm > supposed to be doing: > > (1) Exhaustive assertion approach: In my test code, I add assertions that > all of the bundles I care about are started. If a bundle isn't started, I > try and start it and use the error message as the message for a test > failure. This makes for tests with very clear failure messages, but it > means writing a lot of boilerplate code. If I forget to add an assertion > for a problem bundle, my system is still a black box, and I need ... > > ... (2) Sneaky backdoor console approach: Often, what I really want to do > is just open a console to the test framework and have a good browse of > what's started and what's not and which packages and services are > available. In these cases, I find the temporary folder pax-runner is using > and fire up a console using a command like > > java -jar bundles/org.eclipse.osgi_3.5.1.R35x_v20090827.jar > -console -configuration equinox/ > > This makes it really easy to diagnose what's gone wrong in a failing > system, but it doesn't feel like I'm using the pax tools as intended. > > Am I missing some elegant debugging technique that everyone else using > pax-exam knows about? In other words, is there a cleaner way to produce a > dump of which bundles failed to resolve for technique (1), or to easily > bring up a console of the test environment for technique (2) using proper > pax-runner, rather than just ferreting out pax-runner's temporary folders > and using them directly? > > Thanks, > Holly > > _______________________________________________ > general mailing list > general@lists.ops4j.org > http://lists.ops4j.org/mailman/listinfo/general > > -- -- Toni Menzel | Founder | Rebaze GmbH toni.men...@rebaze.com | www.rebaze.com
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