On Sun, 2005-10-09 at 03:20 +1000, Brett Porter wrote: > Hi, > > I wanted to discuss if people had any thoughts on how we might use > archetypes to construct test cases friendly for reporting to JIRA. What > would need to be included, and how would the user select the right one? > Would we need to prompt them for certain information?
I think there are two things that we can do here with the way archetypes currently work. 1) To provide a partial archetype for components where simple tests cases are added to a project. So someone could, for example, easily create a test case that would get laid down in maven-core to test some specific issue. We might end up with many test cases but I think this is ok and we could then more easily map issues to tests cases that resolved those issues. Here I think all we would have to add now is a parameter for the name of the test class. 2) Provide an archetype for an integration test Currently I'm working with Jorg to make the archetype system better in terms of prompting for information (parameter metadata), and we could easily document what archetypes are to be used for particular cases. We could probably just document the CLI usage to create the appropriate archeypte for now. IDE support would be better but some documentation would work for now. > I realise this gets complicated quickly, but I'm just thinking that at > least the basics of an archetype can be used to quickly establish a test > case, and perhaps we can aid them building on it from there. Absolutely. I stuck this in with the development process issue for now: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-1305 > - Brett > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- jvz. Jason van Zyl jason at maven.org http://maven.apache.org you are never dedicated to something you have complete confidence in. No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. They know it is going to rise tomorrow. When people are fanatically dedicated to political or religious faiths or any other kind of dogmas or goals, it's always because these dogmas or goals are in doubt. -- Robert Pirzig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
