Andrew,
Okay, I see where you're going with that. It sounds like a great idea and very do-able, and useful for many things other than just testing.
BTW, In general I do really like this approach of writing unit tests as services so we can take advantage of all of the flexibility and efficiency that we get for the main application code.
If you (or anybody!) wants to work on this, please do! I'll try to bring it up during the dev conference too as we're working on testing infrastructure if it hasn't been implemented by then.
-David On Jan 30, 2007, at 6:37 AM, Andrew Sykes wrote:
David, I think we're talking about different things here, perhaps I should detail the suggestion a bit more clearly... The idea was to have a page that allowed you to run a service synchronously much like the "schedule service", however, it would then display the results tabularly in the browser. For each value pair displayed, there would be a checkbox to allow you to save the value inthe session, then when you returned to run another service if the one ofthe input params matched one of the previous saved values, it would automatically populate the input box. This would allow people relying predominantly on a browser based test tool to run pretty fancy multi-service sequences. I admit, it does sound a bit hacky, but I have a rough draft which I'm using for some testing and it does make certain things a lot easier. Can you give me your thoughts please? - Andrew On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 20:35 -0700, David E. Jones wrote:I'd really prefer to do what has been proposed as a best practice and write tests using the same OFBiz framework tools that we use to write applications, like simple-methods, services, etc... But yes, it is possible to call a service through a web request and there is one in the webtools wecapp that has been there for years. The trick is you have to set export="true" for all services called this way, which is another reason to do logic-level test (including service calls) in a more black-box way, especially if they are not for testing things that are intended to be available externally. -David On Jan 29, 2007, at 4:01 AM, Andrew Sykes wrote:Assuming an automated web browser type technology is the way to go fortesting... What does everyone think of having an option to run a service synchronously from webtools? This would allow a lot of clever asserts from the test tool? Without the need to make the tool dispatcher aware? Would this be an adequate approach? -- Kind Regards Andrew Sykes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sykes Development Ltd http://www.sykesdevelopment.com-- Kind Regards Andrew Sykes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sykes Development Ltd http://www.sykesdevelopment.com
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