On Sat, Feb 10, 2018 at 8:28 AM, Oliver Heger <oliver.he...@oliver-heger.de> wrote:
> > > Am 10.02.2018 um 09:55 schrieb Stefan Bodewig: > > On 2018-02-10, Simon Spero wrote: > > > >> Writing tests for osgi modules is painless... the second time :-P > > > > I said I "was pointed into a direction for writing a test ..." that's > > been your and Bertrand's input. :-) > > > >> The key to making tests easy is to use pax-exam, which handles most of > the > >> tedious container setup and junit / test-NG test execution. > > > >> https://ops4j1.jira.com/wiki/spaces/PAXEXAM4/pages/ > 54263870/Documentation > > > > Thanks again. > > > >> I can implement this if OSGI related changes are wanted. > > > > What *I*'d want to see is a regression test that prevents us from > > breaking the manifest or dropping imports that used to be there. Others > > may want additional OSGI related changes. > > > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COMPRESS-443 > > > > PaxExam is really a nice tool to write integration tests running inside > the OSGi container. For the purpose at hand it would be possible to > create a setup that starts an embedded OSGi container and deploys the > bundle created by the project. This is not fully trivial because it > requires that all (transitive) dependencies are also installed in the > container. > > Such a test checks whether the manifest is more or less syntactically > correct. In order to prove that all packages are correctly exported, > some more tests would have to be written that access the public API. > (Ideally one would run the whole unit test suite in the container, but I > doubt that this would be feasible. Some tests are probably white-box > tests and access internals of a class that are not necessarily available > inside OSGi.) > > It would be great to have some generic setup that could be reused by all > Commons components. Maybe another maven plugin? It would require some > functionality of the dependencies plugin to resolve all dependencies, > and of the surefire plugin to run tests. > Please see log4j-osgi and the work in progress in Apache Commons Testing. Gary > > Oliver > > > Stefan > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > >
