Test cases are something we really need, but I don't know really how to
write *effective tests* for our cases, because of different combinations
and the fact that it's impacted by what's there in templates and also by
the code itself.
Ara.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:xdoclet-devel-
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Andrew Stevens
> Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2001 2:26 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [Xdoclet-devel] a few bugs in ejb-jar.xml generation
>
> A wise old hermit known only as <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> once said:
>
> > Wouldn't it be nice if the XDoclet core could validate all generated
> > XML files against a DTD (or XMLSchema for that matter) once it's
> > generated? This would be great for testing, and we can use xerces
(or
> > any other validating parser) to do the job. We could write JUnit
test
> > cases (accompanied with test data which would be @tagged sources)
that
> > would ensure that XDoclet is always sound! It would result in *way*
> > better quality of XDoclet. In my opinion this is more important than
> > anything else. I can contribute with this if there is agreement on
it.
> >
> > Right now, i'm thinking of adding a method to SubTask.java like
this:
> >
> > validateXml( InputStream xml, InputStream dtd );
> >
> > This method could be called by SubTask subclasses after generating
an
> > xml file, with the possibility to turn validation on/off through ant
> > parameters.
> >
> > Comments?
> >
> > Aslak
>
> Why stop at only XML? Anything that's generating a java class (e.g.
all
> the other ejbdoclet subtasks) could validate it by trying to compile
it.
> Of course, that only ensures the syntax is valid and not that it makes
> sense, but you could say the same for the DDs. e.g. For a while the
BMP
> beans were getting "<persistence-type>Container<persistence-type>"
> generated, which while wrong is still valid according to the DTD. I
guess
> more specific test cases could be written to check things like that,
> though.
>
>
> Andrew.
>
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