Peter Braswell wrote:
>
> Hi Toby,
>
> jbosstest is a bit of a hodge-podge. Let me try to
> sort it out a bit.
>
> The the core of this CVS module is the CTS stuff. CTS
> is the conformity test suite. I haven't done much
> documentation for this yet, but I will... I promise!
Ok, cool. So this tests whether JBoss obeys the letter of the law (i.e.
the spec)?
> CTS is based heavily on JUnit which is a testing
> framework. You asked for a pattern and in the context
> of CTS the JUnit framework is it.
Yeah, JUnit seems good.
> As far as the other test in jbosstest, they are the
> contributions of the contributors to JBOSS. They are
> adhoc and do not necessarily conform to an particular
> standard, but more the style of an individual
> developer. They in turn test individual pieces of
> code or functionality that were coded by a
> developer/contributor, many having been developed
> prior to adopting JUnit as a testing framework.
>
> Does this help? I can provide further clarification
> if needed.
Yes, it does, thanks.
It seems that CTS is where most tests should live, long term, with the
rest being for JBoss-specific features (e.g. performance). Is this
right?
Thanks,
Toby.
