Hi Andre, I believe too that WebTest should contain a base WebTestCase class to allow writing tests à la Grails. I've tried once to convince Dierk to include in WebTest distribution some stuff he wrote for Grails but he told me that it was too Grails specific to be interesting (and that "normal" WebTest users wouldn't not be interested). Your email shows that I have to try again to convince him.
I don't understand why you start building your webtest test cases with the ant builder within an ant script (where you perform a taskdef for tasks already defined in the "main" ant project). In fact you can just write your own base WebTestCase using an ant builder that does just what is done in Grails or what is done in WEBTEST_HOME/webtest.xml (lib/useWebTest.xml is deprecated and will disappear). The smartest way would be to import this file in current AntBuilder but this doesn't work currently (see recent discussion in Groovy User mailing list). In the mean time you have to do it by yourself ;-) Marc. Andre Schaefer wrote: > Hello all, > > I just startet to use Canoo WebTest to functionally test some web > applications. I did use the auto generated tests in a grails project > beforehand. > > I understand, that I can use groovy scripts in groovy steps from an xml > test definition like explained here: > http://webtest.canoo.com/webtest/manual/groovy.html > > However I find the approach, grails generated, i.e. test classes > extending grails.util.WebTest very elegant. > > Is there a chance to use grails.util.WebTest outside of a grails > project? How would I do that? > > Here is the minimal example I use for now, wich runs but feels "clumsy" > in comparison: > > build.xml: > /-- > <project name="BI IDEA Use Case Tests"> > <property name="webtest.resultpath" value="webtest-results" /> > <property name="webtest.resultfile" value="results.xml"/> > <property name="webtest.resultfile.html" value="results.html"/> > <property environment="env"/> > <property name="env.WEBTEST_HOME" location="/opt/webtest"/> > > <property name="webtest.home" location="${env.WEBTEST_HOME}"/> > <property name="testInWork" value="main"/> > > <description> > <![CDATA[ > Invoke the webtest scripts to invoke functional > webtests on the > Interface > ]]> > </description> > <import file="${webtest.home}/lib/useWebTest.xml" /> > > </project> > \-- > > main.xml: > /-- > ... > <project name="testMe" basedir="." default="main"> > <property environment="env" /> > <import file="${env.WEBTEST_HOME}/lib/taskdef.xml" /> > > <target name="main"> > > <webtest name="googletest"> > &config; > <steps> > <groovy replaceProperties="false" > file="GoogleStep.groovy" /> > </steps> > </webtest> > </target> > > </project> > > GoogleStep.groovy: > /-- > def ant = new AntBuilder() > def webtest_home = "/opt/webtest" > > ant.taskdef(resource:'webtest.taskdef'){ > classpath(){ > pathelement(location:"$webtest_home/lib") > fileset(dir:"$webtest_home/lib", includes:"**/*.jar") > } > } > > ant.webtest(name:'Test Google with Groovy, AntBuilder and WebTest'){ > steps(){ > invoke(url:'http://www.google.com') > verifyTitle(text:'Google') > setInputField(name:'q', value:'Groovy') > clickButton(name:'btnG') > verifyXPath(xpath:"//[EMAIL PROTECTED]'http://groovy.codehaus.org/']") > } > } > \-- > > Any thoughts? _______________________________________________ WebTest mailing list [email protected] http://lists.canoo.com/mailman/listinfo/webtest
