[latka] ways to handle common tests

[Richard Dallaway]

Does anyone have any ideas on good ways to handle units of common test code in Latka?

For example: login to an application. You may need to have a test user log in to an application before running certain tests, and it would be good to be able to code this common HTTP request in just one place and reuse it across many tests. E.g.,

<session>
LOGIN-MAGIC-HERE
<request>
... other tests here
</request> ....
</session>

It's hackable (maybe) with a DTD/entity ("&login"), but I'm not comfortable with that. I wondering if there's a mechanism for some kind of "include" expression? Something like: <include file="login.xml"/> for the login magic?

Another option might be to call the login magic from a JUnit setUp() method, but it seems more natural (to me) to have it in a Latka .xml file.

Any thoughts would be much appreciated
Richard


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