Hi team,
I am currently looking for some advice about testing for our Qooxdoo apps.
We would like to switch to a Test Driven Development methodology, thus we
are investigating our options.
The main problem I am encountering is that I feel writing unit tests for our
application is hard and/or useless. Eg, testing classes one at a time has
not much interest; we use a MVC architecture, and there are very few things
that can be tested individually (eg, for a single class).
Most of our tests should be so called "integration tests", where we create a
lot of different objects and test the interactions between them. For
instance I register a listener, and I test that if the action is taken, the
correct callback takes place. So I've started trying to write integration
tests within the base TestRunner Qooxdoo framework. But I went into troubles
immediately. In particular, our code quite often calls
qx.core.Init.getApplication(); but when I run this in the TestRunner, the
object that I get is the TestRunner instance, and thus all my code fails
instantly...
It seems to me TestRunner may be useful for testing Qx as a framework, since
unit tests are much more easier for a framework. But I fail to see how it
can help me write integration tests, although I really wish to...
I have used Selenium in the past for functional testing (eg, tests in real
production situation) and this worked very well. I could (and will actually)
use Selenium with Qooxdoo for such functional testing, but in order to
switch to a TDD, I also need to write integration / unit tests and Selenium
is a bit too high level for that.
Anyone has advice for our team? Can the qx.core.Init.getApplication()
problem get fixed somehow (via mocking or...)?
Thanks
Jean-Noel
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