I've been using JUnit to test the form and action objects (which required
creating response, request, and servlet stubs for the perform method of
the action object). Then I use HTTPUnit for the interface testing.
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On Sun, 4 Mar 2001, Zach Thompson wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Does anyone have suggestions about how to test the user interface of
> a Struts application before the backend (Action and ActionForm)'s have been
> implemented?
>
> I'm having trouble separating development of the UI from the backend. It
> seems like we spend too much time going back and forth trying to get the
> jsp and all the Struts tags to interact well with the Action's. Sometimes
> the UI is unstable or untestable until something on the backend is fixed. I
> think my development process is broken...
>
> xmlc from Enhydra (enhydra.org) was one approach I looked at, and I like
> the concept of mocking up the entire site up in html before code is
> written. We have found that use tests can lead to major re-designs of
> the backend (especially when the use tests are conducted by clients).
> Ideally, I'd have the UI and the backend be two separate, independently
> functioning units that can implemented and tested at different times by
> different groups and plugged together.
>
> Do I need to create Action and ActionForm stubs to use for testing? Is
> there something that could be integrated into Struts to help with this?
> Maybe have a setting in struts-config.xml that allows jsp's to run even
> if there are errors in Struts tags (beans not found, etc.)?
> Or, am I just going about this all wrong?
>
> Thanks so much,
>
> Zach
>
