Hi: JFunk, sound great me.
Cheers David L. Wasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Bill Laird <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How about JFunk - "Junit Functionaltesting Kit" > haha . j/k. JFunc sounds > cool. There would also have to be modifications to > the cactus framework, as > cactus uses reflection and specifically looks for no > arguement method calls. > Vincent has shown me some of the code, so I think I > can probably handle the > cactus part of it. > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Shane Celis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Bill Laird" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Monday, February 25, 2002 2:16 PM > Subject: Re: Fw: Doing scenario based testing > > > > I would definitely be interested in putting > together our experiences > > from functional testing and developing a project > of our own to address > > these issues. An extension to JUnit would be my > approach. As for the > > name of the project, I find the name "JFunc" > appealing. Anyone else? > > > > -shane > > > > p.s. Should I get on the cactus mailing list? > > > > On Thursday, February 21, 2002, at 11:31 AM, Bill > Laird wrote: > > > > > Hi Rajesh - your scenario testing , aka > 'functional testing' is > > > something > > > that there is a growing interest in the > junit/cactus community. Shane > > > has > > > done some good stuff in the area of dynamic > proxies with some colleagues > > > of > > > his (see http://www.gnufoo.org/junit/index.html > ), which open up Junit > > > to be > > > more flexible, which is critical to those of us > who want to use Junit > > > (and > > > thus cactus) to do functional testing. > > > > > > I say we spec out a little project here and > collaborate and get > > > something > > > done. Vincent has shown me where some of the > code changes need to go in > > > cactus. > > > > > > Cheers, > > > Bill > > > > > > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > From: "Rajesh Kanade" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Sent: Monday, February 18, 2002 7:43 PM > > > Subject: Doing scenario based testing > > > > > > > > > Hi All > > > > > > I am new to cactus and new to testing arena > itself. > > > > > > My company writes web based applications ( using > MVC ) and I am looking > > > at > > > automating testing at various levels.The server > side code is entirely > > > return > > > in Java ( no EJB ). > > > > > > I am trying to come up with a framework ( or use > one if it exists > > > already ) > > > so that we can test our application at various > levels like > > > class level, component level, sub system , > system ( all this done > > > without UI > > > in picture ) > > > So for a class level I can use JUnit to do my > testing. > > > My idea was to build upon this to do component > testing & then reuse > > > these > > > stuff as I move higher in the chain to do sub > system and system testing. > > > > > > I was planning on doing something like this. > > > I am taking an auction example where we wanted > to test a ( auction > > > creation > > > / bidding )scenario > > > > > > So let's say we wanted to create company, users, > set up an auction, Bid > > > on > > > the auction, Approve Winner. > > > > > > So in this case a Scenario specification > Definition file could look like > > > > > > CreateCompany <DataFile to Use> > > > create Users<DataFile to Use> > > > Create Auction<DataFile to User> > > > Bid1<DataFile to User> > > > Bid2<DataFile to Use> > > > <parallel> > > > Bid3<DataFile to Use> > > > .. > > > Bidn<DataFile to Use> > > > <parallel> > > > > > > ApproveWinner<DataFile to Use> > > > > > > The above file could be XML or csv. > > > Probably it needs more parameters like expected > result from this step > > > etc. > > > > > > For each of the activities( each step in the > scenario file ) there is a > > > executeActivity meta data file which is > registered with the engine which > > > tells the test engine what it needs to do when > it encounters a specific > > > activity > > > So for CreateCompany activity this file would > specify something like > > > execute create() method > com.mycompany.auction.Company object . > > > > > > Now using jave reflection the test engine can go > and execute this method > > > with the data being read from the datafile > specified to it from the > > > scenario > > > file . > > > > > > One thing I have to think in detailed is how do > I chain these activities > > > pass results from one activity to another one > etc. Might be we can have > > > a > > > vector of objects passed from one activity to > another. > > > > > > There are some engine specific tags like > <parallel> which indicate that > > > all > > > the steps embedded in those tags should be run > con currently. > > > > > > Advantages of having such a engine are > > > Theritically we just identify the activities in > a product & specify the > > > execution details for this activity and we are > ready to go. > > > > > > > > > My questions to you all is > > > Can I use Cactus to achive some thing like this. > > > Is there a commercial or open source tool to > achieve something like > > > this. > > > > > > > > > Thanx > > > > > > Rajesh > > > > > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > > Join the world's largest e-mail service with MSN > Hotmail. > > > http://www.hotmail.com > > > > > > > > > -- > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > > > > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > For additional commands, e-mail: > > > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > === message truncated === __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? 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