Great Raymond, I very interested in using this approach to automate the execution of our iTests in a web app container. I playing a little with some iTests to try to make them ready to use this. From my initial investigations, I couldn't really change the packaging schema for a given project based on a maven profile, so, I decided to create a new webapp project, that then includes the original iTests as dependencies, other then this, most of the configuration can be centralized on a parent pom. I still trying to see the best way to include the test cases, that was generated in a separate jar (a second artifact from a given module), into the web app....
BTW, Would you mind committing it so I can start playing with a end-to-end scenario for the iTests too ? On Feb 1, 2008 9:41 AM, Raymond Feng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > (Sorry for the long text, I make it availabe on our WIKI too: > http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/TUSCANYWIKI/Automation+of+itests+in+web+applications). > > In our WAR packaging scheme, we package SCA artifacts with Tuscany runtime > jars in a WAR so that it can be deployed to a web container such as Tomcat, > Jetty or Geronimo. In release 1.1, we already have 5-6 samples as web > applications. > > 1) Most of the validation of web applications is done manully before a > release. This is time-consuming and error prone. > 2) Our integration tests are not performed in the WAR packaging scheme. > Trying samples is a smoke test. If we can run the itests in a web > application, we'll get much more coverage. > > To address the above issues, I propose that we add the following > capabilities: > > 1) Provide an option to wrap itests into web applications with little effort > to convert the test cases > 2) Automate the steps to start/stop a web container and deploy web > applications to the container > 3) Automate the testing of our JUnit-based test cases in the web application > > I did some prototyping and here is what I have achieved so far: > > 1) Add some code to > "org.apache.tuscany.sca.host.webapp.TuscanyServletFilter" > (tuscany-host-webapp) to intercept the HTTP requests to a special path > "/junit". The control is then delegated to a new class WebTestRunner that > knows how to find and run the JUNIT test cases and produce the results of > the test (for example, number of runs, failures and errors, similar with > what maven surefire plugin does). The report is sent back to the web client. > > With this, we can run the plain JUNIT test cases in the web application by > connecting to a URL like http://localhost:8080/<app-name>/junit. > > 2) Adjust the sample-calculator-webapp to validate the idea > * Add a test case calculator.CalculatorTestCase > * Configure the maven-war-plugin in the pom.xml to include the test classes > as a jar into the WAR (WEB-INF/test-lib/) > * Change the junit dependency from test to runtime so it will be packaged > into the WAR > > 3) Run the maven build as ususal, produce a WAR, deploy to Tomcat, browse to > http://localhost:8080/sample-calculator-webapp/junit, and see the test > results in the browser. To run a selected list of test cases, > http://localhost:8080/sample-calculator-webapp/junit?test1,test2. > > This seems to be non-invasive as we already configure the servlet filter for > web applications. The regular URLs to JSPs or web services stay the same. We > don't have to change the test case code too much. > > I also went a bit further: > > 1) Developed a maven plugin to trigger the web-based junit tests and analyze > the results > 2) Configure the pom.xml with cargo plugin to start an embedded Jetty > server, deploy the WAR, trigger the web-based junit tests, and stop the > server. > > Now I have a complete automation. To avoid repeating the pom configuration > for each itest, we can add a profile in the parent pom to support this > scheme. > > For Tuscany itests, we also have to figure out a way to avoid the > conflicting bootstrap in the J2SE and web. > > Your feedback is welcome. > > Thanks, > Raymond > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- Luciano Resende Apache Tuscany Committer http://people.apache.org/~lresende http://lresende.blogspot.com/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
