I didn't realize that Canoo
(http://webtest.canoo.com/webtest/manual/WebTestHome.html) wasn't a more
popular tool! I looked at Latka, and Canoo is similar, but seems to have
more features. Basically it exposes as an Ant script a whole bunch of http
requests/responses (similar to latka), but at a much higher level..
Slightly off topic, but to run a script to go to a page, verify a title,
click a button, and then verify links, you add these bits to your ant file.
<steps>
<invoke stepid="main page"
url="${start.page}"
save="Menu"/>
<verifytitle stepid="main page reached"
text="Kinase Profiler Main Menu"
regex="true"/>
<clickbutton stepid="Submit the link to
Workorder list page"
label="WORKORDER (list)" />
<verifylinks stepid="Check all links on List
Workorder"/>
</steps>
In regards to running a webtest tool, you are right that I shouldn't have to
change the CSS scripts etc.. I went and looked at the build file, and the
default canoo test.xml file that is run by ant referernces everything
relative from the local path, so it seemed easier to put everything in a
relative to my web app location. I may change it to put it all in something
like maven/templates/canoo and change the references from local relative
references to relative to maven home.
I will look at how cactus runs tests.. My problem with Canoo's method of
running tests is that they are part of an ant script.. And the processing
of all the raw .xml data is done via xsl from the ant scripts.
And I don't want to hack up the Maven ant scripts, but I guess I can to
integrate canoo. Or, I can try and create some sort of adapter the way
Latka works to run the ant script from inside a JUNIT test.
If you have some samples of running latka you don't mind sharing, I would
love to see it.
Eric
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Subject: Re: Interest in Adding Canoo as a component test of Maven?
I've got no idea what Canoo is....
But biased opinion follows....
"Eric Pugh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 16/04/2002 02:47:14 AM:
> Hi all,
>
> I have been using Canoo quite successfully to run tests for my website
that
> I am using Maven to build. What is annoying is that when I run the
> maven:test target I don't run as well the Canoo web tests script. Also,
If Canoo is some web testing tool like Latka ( see
http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/latka ), then it should have a bridge to
allow it's web test scripts to be run via JUnit....If it's got an ant
task, just put that in your build file.
> everytime I create a new web app, I have to copy all the various .css
and
> .xsl stylesheets into the webapp, which means the updating my webapps
for a
> new version of Canoo is labor intensive.
If Canoo is a testing tool, why does it change your webapp - shouldn't the
app be testable without changes?
> I would like to add Canoo as another optional test to maven, and put all
the
> stylesheets etc in the java/maven/stylesheets directory or possibly a
> java/maven/stylesheets/canoo directory. Is this something that would be
of
> interest to other people for inclusion in the main CVS source?
>
> I think that running a Canoo script should be something specified in
your
> POM.
Ok, here I disagree. There's already a spot for integration tests in the
POM, admittedly via cactus, but I don't see what canoo would add to the
model of a project - why not just update the build-tests.xml file and set
some properties....I've been able to use maven:test to run web tests with
Latka with no change to the POM....
> Eric
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