Re: Monocle with VNC for Jenkins [was: Re: openjfx/8u-dev/rt: RT-35441 [Monocle] Provide a VNC back-end]
Hi, I'm interested in headless testing, too. I tried to use StubToolkit for including TestFX tests in a headless build, but all I got was a CNFE. If anyone is interested to give me a hand on this, details can be found at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21137039/how-to-use-stubtoolkit-instead-of-quantum-toolkit-for-my-javafx-application. As Tom explained, Monocle would provide another way for headless testing. Does it replace StubToolkit? Cheers, Uwe Tom Eugelink t...@tbee.org , 22/1/2014 8:46 AM: What also is very interesting is headless testing. Let me see if I'm getting this. Normally Jenkins would start a VNC server (xvnc), which provides some kind of graphics API against which an UI program can paint. JavaFX is not picking that up however. But, as I read it, in this case JavaFX starts its own VNC server, so it takes of everything itself. All one would need to do is specify the -Dglass.platform=Monocle -Dmonocle.platform=VNC -Dprism.order=sw And additionally a port to run the VNC server on (so multiple Jenkins jobs don't interfere). Am I correct? How can I test this (aka in which version is the VNC server available)? Tom
Re: Monocle with VNC for Jenkins [was: Re: openjfx/8u-dev/rt: RT-35441 [Monocle] Provide a VNC back-end]
Hi Tom, You have it right. Currently the VNC server is always running on port 5901, but feel free to open a JIRA to change that. If you want to test this today you need to build OpenJFX yourself (https://wiki.openjdk.java.net/display/OpenJFX/Building+OpenJFX). We don’t have snapshots of 8u20 on java.net yet, although I hope we will soon. Thanks, Daniel On Jan 22, 2014, at 9:41 AM, Tom Eugelink t...@tbee.org wrote: What also is very interesting is headless testing. Let me see if I'm getting this. Normally Jenkins would start a VNC server (xvnc), which provides some kind of graphics API against which an UI program can paint. JavaFX is not picking that up however. But, as I read it, in this case JavaFX starts its own VNC server, so it takes of everything itself. All one would need to do is specify the -Dglass.platform=Monocle -Dmonocle.platform=VNC -Dprism.order=sw And additionally a port to run the VNC server on (so multiple Jenkins jobs don't interfere). Am I correct? How can I test this (aka in which version is the VNC server available)? Tom
Re: Monocle with VNC for Jenkins [was: Re: openjfx/8u-dev/rt: RT-35441 [Monocle] Provide a VNC back-end]
Hi Uwe, On Jan 22, 2014, at 2:19 PM, Uwe Sander usan...@tesis.de wrote: Hi, I'm interested in headless testing, too. I tried to use StubToolkit for including TestFX tests in a headless build, but all I got was a CNFE. If anyone is interested to give me a hand on this, details can be found at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21137039/how-to-use-stubtoolkit-instead-of-quantum-toolkit-for-my-javafx-application. As Tom explained, Monocle would provide another way for headless testing. Does it replace StubToolkit? Monocle uses the same Quantum toolkit that other JavaFX implementation use - not StubToolkit, which is only used in testing. As I see it, there is a place for tests using StubToolkit, and a place for tests using a real Toolkit implementation. For example, QuantumToolkit has a very specific threading model, but this is not enforced by StubToolkit. StubToolkit is useful for isolated tests of the upper parts of the JavaFX stack. For a real application you need to test on a real Toolkit, and headless Monocle is one way to do that. We have https://javafx-jira.kenai.com/browse/RT-35330 open on removing StubToolkit. I’m not convinced that is the right thing to do. https://javafx-jira.kenai.com/browse/RT-35396 would open up possibilities for a new class of automated test, without requiring us to rewrite existing tests that use StubToolkit. Thanks, Daniel Cheers, Uwe Tom Eugelink t...@tbee.org , 22/1/2014 8:46 AM: What also is very interesting is headless testing. Let me see if I'm getting this. Normally Jenkins would start a VNC server (xvnc), which provides some kind of graphics API against which an UI program can paint. JavaFX is not picking that up however. But, as I read it, in this case JavaFX starts its own VNC server, so it takes of everything itself. All one would need to do is specify the -Dglass.platform=Monocle -Dmonocle.platform=VNC -Dprism.order=sw And additionally a port to run the VNC server on (so multiple Jenkins jobs don't interfere). Am I correct? How can I test this (aka in which version is the VNC server available)? Tom
