Another benefit to TestNG would be the ability to separate out certain tests for pre-checkin and other tests for continuous integration builds. As our test suite gets bigger, this will start to become an issue.
-Patrick -- Patrick Linskey BEA Systems, Inc. _______________________________________________________________________ Notice: This email message, together with any attachments, may contain information of BEA Systems, Inc., its subsidiaries and affiliated entities, that may be confidential, proprietary, copyrighted and/or legally privileged, and is intended solely for the use of the individual or entity named in this message. If you are not the intended recipient, and have received this message in error, please immediately return this by email and then delete it. > -----Original Message----- > From: Kevin Sutter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2007 11:39 AM > To: open-jpa-dev@incubator.apache.org > Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] Move to TestNG? > > I see that they have a plugin for Eclipse, but I haven't > tried it yet. It > doesn't look like it supports IntelliJ. On the surface, the > conversion and > usage looks doable and would satisfy the "failed testcase" problem. > > My question is whether it's worth the effort. If we have a > testcase that > has failures, write appropriate JIRA reports, and comment out > the failing > variations until they get resolved. As part of the JIRA > resolution, you > uncomment the failing test variations. > > Even if we go with TestNG, it's a similar process. We > discover a problem, > write a JIRA report, and put the testcase in a special group > that allows > failures. When the JIRA report is resolved, we move the testcase to a > regular group where it is not allowed to fail. > > Kevin > > On 2/1/07, Dain Sundstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > My only concern is IDE support and specifically the IDE I use > > intellij. Does this work as a test case type in IntelliJ > and Eclipse? > > > > If so, I don't really care which framework we use. > > > > -dain > > > > On Feb 1, 2007, at 11:08 AM, Patrick Linskey wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > According to the discussion at > > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OPENJPA-123, it looks like > > > TestNG's concept of test groups could let us easily > create tests that > > > are expected to fail, and exclude them from test runs until the > > > corresponding behavior is fixed / feature is implemented. > What do you > > > guys think about moving to TestNG? I believe that the > work involved is > > > minimal; there are some conversion tools / compatibility modes or > > > something. > > > > > > -Patrick > > > > > > -- > > > Patrick Linskey > > > BEA Systems, Inc. > > > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > > _ > > > Notice: This email message, together with any attachments, may > > > contain > > > information of BEA Systems, Inc., its subsidiaries and > > > affiliated > > > entities, that may be confidential, proprietary, copyrighted > > > and/or > > > legally privileged, and is intended solely for the use of the > > > individual > > > or entity named in this message. If you are not the intended > > > recipient, > > > and have received this message in error, please immediately return > > > this > > > by email and then delete it. > > > > >
