HI Mathieu, My apologies for the inconvenience caused. I should have made it more clear that the suggestion was just that. And that the 'would' in the following sentence should have been 'could':
Taking the load process to the suite level would solve this Best regards, Pierre Smits *Apache Trafodion <https://trafodion.apache.org>, Vice President* *Apache Directory <https://directory.apache.org>, PMC Member* Apache Incubator <https://incubator.apache.org>, committer *Apache OFBiz <https://ofbiz.apache.org>, contributor (without privileges) since 2008* Apache Steve <https://steve.apache.org>, committer On Sat, Apr 20, 2019 at 12:29 PM Mathieu Lirzin <mathieu.lir...@nereide.fr> wrote: > Hello Pierre, > > Pierre Smits <pierresm...@apache.org> writes: > > > Loading of test data should be happening on suite level, before any > > test-case is executed. > > > > Currently the code block in [1] is like: > > > > <test-suite suite-name="suite-name" ..> > > > > <test-case case-name="load-test data"> > > > > <entity-xml action="load" > > > entity-xml-url="component://<component-name/>testdef/data/<name>TestData.xml"/> > > > > </test-case> > > > > <test-case case-name="test-to-execute"> > > > > <simple-method-test > > location="component://<componen-name>/<path-name>/<test-name>Test.xml"/> > > > > </test-case> > > > > </test-suite> > > > > > > The example above treats the loading of the test data as a test-case. > Which > > is incorrect. Loading test data for a component's (suite of) test(s) is > > not about testing the load process, but about prepping the environment > for > > one or more executions of test-cases of the component. > > > > Taking the load process to the suite level would solve this. Like in > > example below: > > > > <test-suite suite-name="suite-name" ..> > > > > <!-- prep for test-cases --> > > > > <entity-xml action="load" > > > entity-xml-url="component://<component-name/>testdef/data/<name>TestData.xml"/> > > > > <!-- test cases --> > > > > <test-case case-name="test-to-execute"> > > > > <simple-method-test > > location="component://<componen-name>/<path-name>/<test-name>Test.xml"/> > > > > </test-case> > > > > </test-suite> > > Moving the <entity-xml> element in the children of the <test-suite> one > has currently no effect. Please make it clear when you are speaking > about not implemented features, I just loose half an hour because of > that. > > Currently only the following syntax is “working”: > > --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- > <test-case> > <entity-xml action="load" entity-xml-url="..."/> > </test-case> > --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- > > -- > Mathieu Lirzin > GPG: F2A3 8D7E EB2B 6640 5761 070D 0ADE E100 9460 4D37 >
