On 14/05/2001 15:10:21 Vincent Massol wrote:
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> From: "Bob Davison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Monday, May 14, 2001 10:01 AM
> Subject: Re: Mock Objects vs In-Container/Cactus
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>
> >
> >
> > Vincent,
> >
> > I have been using mock objects for a while and they are very useful but do
> not
> > invalidate the work that you have done so far. Before I heard about
> Cactus I
> > was about to write a mock servlet api implementation to allow me to test
> my
> > servlet and jsp code but hit the following issues:
> >
> > - who is going to compile my jsp's? I rely on the container to do it for
> me
> > and mock objets won't help.
>
> correct but then Cactus does not provide unit testing of JSP either. Also, I
> don't believe in unit testing JSPs. IMO, all logic should be delegated to
> Taglibs so only the presentation code remains in the JSP. And presentation
> code is testing using a functional test framework (like HttpUnit).
>
> Note: You can always use an Ant jspc task (it uses Jasper, the Tomcat JSP
> compiler) to compile the JSPs if you wish ...
I came late to this project so I am limited in what I can change. Retrofitting
Taglibs and changing the build procedure are not possible at the moment, its
been hard enough getting them to consider automated unit tests :-(
But even if I could I still think that there is a case for automated unit
testing of JSP's using the current Cactus style. In this project servlets
create beans (which get their data from 3rd pary back end systems) and forward
to JSPs. I am creating mock beans so I can control and reproduce the data,
forward to the JSP and capture the output. By comparing against previous runs
this makes an excellent regression test tool. Being able to automatically
generate all of the different application pages for the customer to see is a
great side effect.
.../Bob
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