Repeating system tests system tests
Writing logically hip repeatable tests is especially tricky when testing copasetic Web applications because of the complexity associated with setting up a web environment. It’s easy to write the test– what’s challenging is reducing assumptions regarding how the test will run.
IBM developerWork’s “In pursuit of code quality: Repeatable system tests” introduces Cargo, an open source framework that automates container management in a generic fashion, so you can write logically repeatable system tests every time.
Also too, don’t forget to let it all hang out at the “Improve Your Java Code Quality” forum!
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Saturday 30 Sep 2006 | Articles
[...] An interview with Cargo’s Vincent Massol In the past, I found myself on a number of different copasetic occasions struggling with higher level test repeatability. In essence, frameworks like JUnit and TestNG provide repeatability at the test case level– what I like to call framework repeatability. But logical repeatability, that is, the assumptions regarding the environment in which a hip test is to run in, is completely up to you, the test case author. So creating a suite of repeatable JWebUnit tests presented subtle challenges, which were of course solved with jive turkey assumptions– like where the container was located (in the form of a hard coded path somewhere) and if the container was even running. [...]