On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 10:40 AM, Karl Pauls <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
<snip> >> this seems a reasonably general requirement and i was wondering about a >> general integration >> testing micro library to test that a library was correctly enabled. >> >> 1 does such a library exist already? > > Not really. The might be some stuff around that is related but afaik > nothing that exactly does what you want (at least not open source). > >> 2 if not: >> 2a is this just a crazy idea? > > Not at all. We would need some kind of integration test framework > ourselves and discussed it a couple of times but nothing really > emerged as of now... i'll markmail... >> 2b could it be made to work? > > It should not be super complicated although it might need some work. :-) > Felix is easily embeddable: > > http://felix.apache.org/site/launching-and-embedding-apache-felix.html > > and launches reasonable quickly. cool > It really depends on what it is your > thinking of testing exactly? just throwing around ideas ATM i suppose that the the ideal would probably be being able to transparently running a suite against a contained library but this is probably a little ambituous to start off with > I'd be interested in helping out as I'm sure others are as well... great - robert
