Hi Saneth, Thanks for the clarifications. Will follow the guidelines you mentioned.
Thanks, Supun On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 7:01 PM, Saneth Dharmakeerthi <sane...@wso2.com> wrote: > Hi Supun, > > it is not a good idea to populate a DB using DB dumps, because it is not > pactrical to maintain the db dumps and package the dumps with product. > > In user scenarios also these workflows are executed in same oder it is ok > to have dependencies among the workflows. > > But at the *beginning of each workflow it is must to verify *the needed > data is available in the db. > These verifications can be implemented inside *@beforeClass *or *@ > beforeTest* methods(this depends on how you arrange the test cases). > Also if you arrange the each workflow as test groups you can use " > *dependsOnGroups*" to control the dependency amoung workflows. > > > > Thanks and Best Regards, > > Saneth Dharmakeerthi > Senior Software Engineer > WSO2, Inc. > Mobile: +94772325511 > > On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 5:59 PM, Supun Sethunga <sup...@wso2.com> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> While writing Integration Automated Tests for Product ML, I came across >> the following scenario: >> >> Suppose there are several workflows I want to test (workflow_1, >> workflow_2, ...). Each workflow consists of several methods. >> i.e: >> >> - workflow_1 >> - method_A >> - method_B >> - method_C >> - workflow_2 >> - method_X >> - method_Y >> - method_Z >> - and so on.. >> >> Every workflow read/write from/to database. In user-scenarios, these >> workflows are also again executed in order. i.e: each workflow needs the >> data written to DB from the previous workflow. >> >> Would like to know the Best way of writing tests to this scenario. Is it >> acceptable to use a happy-scenario of workflow_1 when initializing tests >> for workflow_2? >> OR should I populate the DB using a pre-created DB dump, OR mock the >> database? >> >> Thanks, >> Supun >> >> -- >> *Supun Sethunga* >> Software Engineer >> WSO2, Inc. >> http://wso2.com/ >> lean | enterprise | middleware >> Mobile : +94 716546324 >> > > -- *Supun Sethunga* Software Engineer WSO2, Inc. http://wso2.com/ lean | enterprise | middleware Mobile : +94 716546324
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