Marc Guillemot wrote:
Hi Paul,
according to your remarks, I think that I haven't been as precise as I
wanted:
I was pretty sure I knew what you meant - just making sure.
- Would we permit subdirectories under tests, environment, definitions
etc?
(I think we would have to)
sure
- Will the structure make it easy to work with Eclipse/IntelliJ? (I have
always found it hard to use WTP to do XML validation and also have
relative paths to DTDs (e.g. ../dtds/webtest.dtd) and entity declarations
etc.)
to some extend, yes. IDEs have a good support... when tests are "correctly"
set up. For the rest, we will have to wait for WebTestClipse ;-)
- definitions.xml -> definitions?
??
definitions.xml is a ant file generated from the content of the definitions
directory
Sure, just wondering about its placement - fine in top-level directory.
- BC issue: will a fixed structure make life a nightmare for existing
users?
absolutely not. No necessity to move
- Is there a reason for macro declaration to be through entities and not
just imported directly?
to keep code shorter, the files within definitions dir don't need to be full
ant files (that could be imported) but only the macros themselves
OK, IDEs may not format them correctly - they tend not to like fragments
as much but I currently live with this now. And I guess we can support
either.
- I am a big Groovy fan but we should support JRuby and JavaScript etc
scripts too
Groovy was just an example. I meant anything that has to be executed once
before the tests run.
- We need to make it easy for reports to be somewhere else (it is the
only directory not part of the source tree)
yep. All locations will be defined with properties that can be "overriden"
with other values
- We should think a bit about data-driven tests (would all that belong
in environment?) Maybe we could support 'data' too eventually.
how would you use your content from the data dir?
I don't have a specific example in mind but just thinking about things
like PropertyTable.
I would be happy to help flesh out and trial something.
thanks for the help. I have already nearly all ingredients, I just need to
find time to mix them together ;-)
Happy baking! ;-)
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