Hi all,
I'm a bit confused by the lastest feature request, asking for removing
JUnit dependency from jWebUnit. It's true that TestNG seems to be a
serious alternative, and if we want to serve the maximum amount of
people, it could be interesting to find a way to easily be compatible
with different testing engines.
For example, I know that Selenium RC guys change the API. All the
public void assertXXX()
where replaced by
public boolean isXXX()
We could do the same think with jWebUnit. We keep IJWebUnitDialog, that
is the minimal interface the testing engines should implement. We remove
JUnit assertions from WebTester (assertTableEquals() become
isTableEqual()). And in separate modules, we could have a WebTestCase
based on JUnit, a WebTestCase based on TestNG, ...
It allows to remove JUnit dependency, but new problems appear. The first
I see is how to document test failures? For example, when we call
assertTableEquals(X, Y)
we could see in JUnit exception the reason of the failure ("row count
are different", "this cell is not equals to this other", ...)
But if we only get a boolean, we can't get a message too.
Another possibility is to keep the syntax
void assertTableEquals(X, Y)
but without using JUnit assertion. We could raise our own more detailed
exceptions in case of failure. For example TableNotFoundException,
RowCountException, ...
Any comment ?
++
Julien
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