Here are some points I think seamtest need to be improved:
1. Error message/report need to be improved.
2. Configuration need to simplified.
3. Need to more fault tolerant.
Here is what happend to us when using SeamTest:
We copied everything from seam booking example to our project and added in our
code. Everything worked fine in jboss app server but not in seamtest. The error
message it gave didn't make any sense to us. we had to use cvs diff to compare
every single file to make sure our project is exactly same as seam booking
example. we finally got it working after a couple of hours code analysing. We
thought that was the end of the trouble but it's not.
After a few days, we've added in some of our code. SeamTest stopped working
again. The error message was "comp is not bound". The generated xml report
didn't have any useful information. We had to revert our project to the initial
state and repeat our changes one by one. It took us 2 days to find out the
problem was caused by one of the jboss config xml under embedded-ejb/conf
folder.
It worked fine for a few days and it stopped working again one day morning.
This didn't make any sense to us because it worked on the previous day. The
error message was still "Comp is not bound". We spent another 2 days to get it
working again. Still don't know what the problem was, but at least it worked.
After a few days, it stopped working again("Comp is not bound"). we spent
another 2 days to find out it was caused by a incorret annotation used in one
of our entities.
It's so much trouble to use SeamTest and we finally had to stop using seamtest.
We now use junit for small unit test and manually test our app in browser for
integration test.
I guess the first thing seamtest need to improve is the error message. the most
common error we got is "comp not bound", or "NullPointerException". It would
save us a lot of time if the error was something like "ABC component is not
bound, please check your jboss-xxx.xml".
BTW: by the time I'm writting on this thread, tried to run seamtest which i
stopped using it for a month. still get "comp not bound".
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