Hi Julian,

I guess this would be yet another type of tests. I'll concentrate on creating 
something to test the drivers themselves which can be used in the buld to 
ensure they work correctly and get the almost not-existent coverage back up 
again.

But I agree we also need the other types of tests, but I would expect the 
tooling for this to be completely different.

Chris

Am 20.02.20, 08:51 schrieb "Julian Feinauer" <[email protected]>:

    Overall, it sounds like a good idea to add more long time tests and 
stability tests and load tests to be more proactive about hat we encounter in 
high load real life usage scenarios (and can only report / fix then).
    
    Julian
    
    Am 19.02.20, 13:26 schrieb "Strljic, Matthias Milan" 
<[email protected]>:
    
        +1 from my side. I think it is very important to include by design a 
test suite if we autogenerate parts of our stack. The proposed idea seems to 
build a nice first base which could be extended for combinations of 
autogenerated and manual coded protocol semantics.
        
        And ty @Chris for your effort 😊
        
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        -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
        Von: Christofer Dutz <[email protected]> 
        Gesendet: Tuesday, February 18, 2020 9:54 AM
        An: [email protected]
        Betreff: [TESTNG] Proposal for easily testing generated drivers
        
        Hi all,
        
        so we have more and more ported drivers, which is a good thing. However 
all of these are mostly not covered by unit- or integration-tests.
        I wouldn’t want to release them like that.
        
        So I was thinking how we can write tests for these in a universal way 
where you don’t have to learn a completely new approach to testing for every 
driver.
        
        The idea I had, and for which would like your feedback, would be more 
an Integration-Testsuite.
        
        We already have a XML based Unit-Test framework for the parsers which 
help get the messages themselves correct and can prove the parsers and 
serializers are doing what we want them too … here a lot more tests could be 
created.
        
        Based on this Framework I would like to build something that takes 
things one step further.
        
        There is one transport called “test” … this allows passing bytes into a 
pipeline and making assertions to both ends of the Netty pipelines. Also does 
it allow to read output from the pipeline.
        
        I would now like to combine the XML notation used in the unit-test 
framework to specify the expected interaction with the driver … in this we 
could treat one testcase as a sequence of “send” and “expect” elements. The 
framework would step through each element from the top to the bottom. If it 
gets a “send” element it will parse the XML message, serialize it and send 
those bytes to the pipeline. If it processes an “expect” it will wait till it 
gets a byte[] from the pipeline, parse it, serialize it as XML and compare that 
to the expected xml in the “expected” tag.
        
        I think with a setup like this we could produce a lot of 
integration-tests that should get the coverage up pretty fast and it should 
help with defining scenarios for bug reports pretty easily.
        
        What do you think?
        
        Chris
        
    
    

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