RE: [mevenide-user] Advice on test design

Your testcode should be responsible for loading the property
file to use for configuration your app

therefore you can call your app by passing a purpose 
configuration file for each test....

the default property file can be located in the jar
/src/main/resources (this will go in the jar)

the testfiles can be located in
/src/test/resources (this will go in the test-jar)
or any other folder below src/test then you can see the
files in 'Other Test Sources' (this is how it works in NB6.0)

as Emilian also mentioned is always easier to use InputStreams for
loading resources.

this.getClass().getRessourceAsStream().... or something like that

Happy testing

Daniel

PS: JUnit 4.x makes testing so much easier...
  
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Emilian Bold [mailto:[email protected]] 
> Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2007 10:32 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [mevenide-user] Advice on test design
> 
> If you expect to have the properties file in a JAR then indeed it
> doesn't seem to work. But you might use an actual File to get the
> property and then you either have it in /tmp for example of not.
> 
> Another, nicer, way would be to allow your class to use InputStreams.
> This way you can have a valid property with the inputstream
> (getClass().getResource("valid.pro")), an invalid one, and a missing
> (null stream) one.
> 
> My 2c,
> Emilian
> 
> On Nov 27, 2007 11:28 AM, andy law (RI) 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > All,
> >
> > I *know* this is mostly off-topic for this list (and I apologise in
> > advance), but I figure this is still a good place to start.
> >
> > I am running Netbeans 5.5 with mevenide trying to decide 
> how I attack
> > the following problem:
> >
> > Let's assume that I'm writing some code that uses a 
> properties file to
> > define some parameter or other. In the absence of the 
> properties file,
> > the code should use a sensible default value. So, I have 
> the following
> > tests to run
> >
> > 1) No properties file - default behaviour
> > 2) Properties file with nonsense value - default behaviour 
> with warning
> > 3) Properties file with sensible value - use supplied value
> >
> > How do I run tests 1 *and* 2/3 in the same project given 
> that the test
> > properties file is either supplied or not (as far as I can tell) in
> > src/test/resources.
> >
> > Later,
> >
> > Andy
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