Paulex Yang wrote:
Richard Liang wrote:
Hello All,
Now let's talk about the TestNG groups. I have read the related
threads which posted by George, Vladimir Ivanov and Alexei Zakharov.
All of them are good discussion about TestNG groups.
IMHO, we may define Harmony test groups according the following 4
dimensions:
1) [Platform] os.any, os.<platform id>
*os.any* - group of tests which pass on any platform. IMHO, most of
our tests should be in this group.
*os.<platform id>* - group of tests which are designed for one
specific platform. A test may be in more than one of the groups.
e.g., @Test(groups={"os.win.IA32", "os.linux.IA32"})
** os.any and os.<platform id> are mutually exclusive, that is,
tests in os.any group should not be in os.win.IA32.
I suggest to separate the CPU arch with OS, they are actually
different things, and we probably will have tests written for all
64bits arch, or for all Linux OS.
Thanks a lot, Paulex. I agree. Separating os and arch make our groups
more flexible. I will update the grouping proposal soon to integrate
your and others' suggestion.
Best regards,
Richard
2) [Test state] state.broken, state.broken.<platform id>
*state.broken* - group of tests which fail on every platform, because
of bugs of tests or implementation. We need to fix the bugs of tests
or implementation to make them pass.
*state.broken.<platform id>* - groups of test which only fail on one
specific platform. A test may be in more than one of the groups.
e.g., @Test(groups={"state.broken.linux.IA32", "os.broken.linux.IA64"})
**state.broken.<platform id> group may be used as a convenient
way to indicate that a test is platform-specific. e.g., If we support
10 platforms, and one test are designed for 9 platforms except for
MacOS, instead of list 9 os.<platform id>, we can just use
state.broken.MacOS
3) [Test type] type.api, type.impl
*type.api* - group of tests which are tests for APIs in the Java
Specification
*type.impl* - groups of tests which are tests for Harmony-specific
implementation
** type.api and type.impl are also mutually exclusive.
4) [Test Level] level.unit, level.integration, level.system,
level.stress, etc. (Levels of Test refer to the increase in
complexity as moving through test cycle. )
** A test may be in more than one of the groups.
** In fact, some tests such as System tests are the verification
of the entire system. Maybe we'll put them into a separate project.
e.g., harmony/enhanced/SVT (System Verification Test).
If we want to run all the unit test for APIs on windows, we may use
TestNG groups to select the tests:
<groups>
<run>
<include name="os.any" />
<include name="type.api" />
<include name="os.win.IA32" />
<exclude name="state.broken" />
<exclude name="state.broken.win.IA32" />
</run>
</groups>
Well, I think our most of existing tests are in the groups of
{"os.any", "type.api", "level.unit"}, and I have asked TestNG to add
a new option "-groups" for its JUnitConverter which allow us to
specify the test groups when migrate from JUnit test to TestNG test.
Thanks for reading so far, and I will highly appreciate your comments
or suggestion. ;-)
--
Richard Liang
China Software Development Lab, IBM
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