We are using shale-test for unit testing JSF backing beans, shale is not invasive, you can use only this part of the shale without including other parts of it to build path.
To be precise, you need both shale-core.jar and shale-test.jar in the classpath for your unit tests, but you need neither in the classpath for your runtime application (unless you are actually using Shale in the application itself, of course).
regards....
Craig
