On 2/15/06, CONNER, BRENDAN (SBCSI) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
That's correct ... it is designed for out-of-the-container unit testing with something like JUnit. You'd want something like Cactus for in-container tests.
One possibility to consider for end-to-end testing of webapps is an automated client framework that behaves like a web app user, and has facilities for examining the HTML (or whatever) that the app returns in order to determine correctness or not. There are a variety of approaches to this -- I use HtmlUnit for this in the Shale Use Cases example app (see the "systest" target in build.xml). The other Struts guys seem to like Canoo.
Craig
Thanks, Craig. As you probably know, I posted a similar message over on the Struts-Shale list.So it appears that, unlike Cactus, the Shale Test Framework doesn't run in the Web containers, correct?
That's correct ... it is designed for out-of-the-container unit testing with something like JUnit. You'd want something like Cactus for in-container tests.
Is there any testing framework I can use that will run in the Web container so that I can effectively initiate a J2EE round-trip test starting with my JSF managed bean's action method?
One possibility to consider for end-to-end testing of webapps is an automated client framework that behaves like a web app user, and has facilities for examining the HTML (or whatever) that the app returns in order to determine correctness or not. There are a variety of approaches to this -- I use HtmlUnit for this in the Shale Use Cases example app (see the "systest" target in build.xml). The other Struts guys seem to like Canoo.
Brendan Conner
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Craig
