Re: Unit testing RMI Servers

On Monday 09 May 2005 14:55, David Whyte wrote:
> On 5/9/05, Niclas Hedhman <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Monday 09 May 2005 14:26, David Whyte wrote:
> > > Can anyone advise of any previous work that may have been done to make
> > > this kind of test a little easier.  I don't mind doing it the long way
> > > I have outlined above, but if there is a neater way to go about it,
> > > bring it on ;)
> >
> > I think you should list what you want the test to capture.
> >
> > If you are talking unittesting only, I don't see the purpose to spawn a
> > separate thread at all (we must trust the Sun doesn't release JDKs with
> > severely faulty RMI implementations in them). If you want to make sure
> > that no local references are being handed around, then do separation
> > through classloader management instead.
>
> Its pretty much that I can see via the current JUnits that the
> functionality is working fine in the same local process, but I am
> skeptical that I have gotten it so that when it is deployed remotely,
> everything will be fine.  I do trust Sun's implementation, I promise

"same local process" == local references
  or
"same local process" == remote references
??

If you are using remote references in the tests today, you are going through
RMI, and it shouldn't work if you (for instance) forgotten to re-compile a
Stub after a Remote interface change.

I strongly suspect that you are actually talking more about function testing
or perhaps acceptance testing, than unit tests.


Cheers
Niclas

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