On Tuesday, August 12, 2003, at 09:08 pm, Jeremy Boynes wrote:
1. org.apache.geronimo.deployment.scanner.WebDAVScannerTest you have to set up a WebServer with WebDAV enabled and be able to access "http://localhost/testScan";. after that the test is OK.
This one is down to me.
Does ASF have any mechanism for testing features that reply on specific
infrastructure? Should we just separate them out and leave to individuals to
test?
In the past I've done one of the following things for this.
* use Mock objects to simulate a real external service
* use a naming convention to separate 'system tests'. e.g. I've used *SystemTest.java to denote system tests (test requiring a system to be available, rather than a unit test case).
* sometimes you want to run the unit tests with different platforms - e.g. different JMS providers or different databases etc. In cases like these I often make a separate Maven project which typically reuses the same JUnit code base but changes the configuration & compile time dependencies to use a different driver/platform etc.
Any of those might help. e.g. tests requiring other infrastructure could go into the 'functional test' project?
James ------- http://radio.weblogs.com/0112098/
