Hello All,
After read through the document recommended by Alex, I think TestNG can
really meet our requirement. It provides much flexibility for test
configuration. ;-)
If we decide to transfer to TestNG, we shall:
1. Identify Harmony testing strategy. (It's not easy)
2. Define TestNG suite/groups to reflect Harmony testing strategy
3. Decide to use Java 5 Annotations or Java 1.4 JavaDoc annotations
4. Convert all JUnit tests to TestNG tests (TestNG provides a tool
"org.testng.JUnitConverter" for migrating from JUnit, but it seems that
the tool has a bug :-P )
5. Choose a module to run a pilot
...
Please correct me if I'm wrong. Thanks a lot.
Best regards,
Richard.
George Harley wrote:
Alex Blewitt wrote:
On 06/07/06, Richard Liang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
It seems that you're very familiar with TestNG. ;-) So would you
please
identify what we shall do to transfer from junit to TestNG? Thanks a
lot.
Me? I'm just highly opinionated :-)
Hi Alex,
I think we are all pretty much in the TestNG novice category :-)
There's guidelines for migrating from JUnit to TestNG at the home page:
http://testng.org/doc/migrating.html
"Here is a sample use that will convert all the JUnit tests in the
src/ directory to TestNG:
java org.testng.JUnitConverter -overwrite -annotation -srcdir src"
:-)
I have done some private experimentation with this command line
utility and it seems to work well. In the first instance it would be
good to preserve the JUnit "nature" of the tests - i.e. still have the
test classes extend from JUnit TestCase etc - so that there is always
a backwards migration path. That's me being paranoid. Note that the
equivalent migration functionality in the latest TestNG plug-in for
Eclipse did not allow that but, in addition to adding in the
annotations, insisted on removing the inheritance from TestCase.
There's also instructions about how to set it up with an Ant-based
build:
http://testng.org/doc/ant.html
I'll see if I can migrate the tests I've got in the Pack200 dir to use
TestNG, so that you can see what it looks like. Unfortunately, I doubt
that I'm going to be able to get to that much before 2 weeks time due
to other outstanding commitments ...
Alex.
Although we haven't gotten round to discussing specifics yet, it is
probably timely to mention here that using the TestNG annotations
approach (as opposed to the pre-1.5 Javadoc comments approach) will
not work so long as we are compiling Harmony code with the "jsr14"
target. It looked like the annotation metadata did not make it into
the generated class files (at least this is what I saw in my own
experiments). If we want to use the annotations approach we will have
to wait until we move up to compiling for a 1.5 target. Hopefully that
will not be too long now......
In the meantime you could try out using the Javadoc comments approach,
just to get a feel for how things run. The downside to that is that
your test source needs to be available at runtime so that the comments
are available for the framework to examine.
Best regards,
George
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