Why not throw a JWebUnitException, and have the various WebTestCase
classes catch that and throw an appropriate exception for the unit
test in question (or just call fail with the message from the
exception)...
-JF
On Jun 29, 2006, at 7:11 AM, Julien Henry wrote:
>
> 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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