Re: Live Testing -

On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 20:39, Bert van Brakel wrote:
> Ignore the last message, bloody shortcut keys...
> 
> Have a query regarding unit testing within plexus.
> 
> I'm wanting to test all my components using a real deployment 
> scenario, so I can test whether all my configurations  are 
> correct and all pigs are flying. To achieve this I'm looking 
> at running plexus through jetty (using summit) and using an 
> xml-rpc component communicating with my unit tests to provide 
> the ServiceManager from within plexus. This would allow me to 
> test all my components both in a development deployment, and 
> also in live deployment.
> 
> What I'm interested in knowing is if anybody else has done 
> this? or is there a better way? I know I can extend 
> PlexusTestCase but this still doesn't test the whole war 
> bundle and doesn't mimic a real deployment situation.

The PlexusTestCase is pretty good for components, even complex ones, but
deploying the container is good.

I do this with the plexus plugin and generate the container and have
been doing a mix of manual and automated testing. I get at my model via
xmlrpc so I run a set of python scripts that Pete whipped up to set some
things.

Ideally I would say augment the plexus plugin to allow the running of
the container and the triggering of running some tests. This is what I'm
working on SureFire for as I would like to fully automate complex
testing. Bob has also created SysUnit for multi-machine testing across a
network.

As per usual I'm strapped for time but I would augment the plexus plugin
to allow the running of the container.

> -Bert
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