Re: Structuring Groovy tests

Hi Murat-

thanks for your reply. This looks similar (yet more refined) to what I've
come up with. So I'm probably not completely on the wrong track :)
Thanks for your help,
-markus

On Thu, 20 Jan 2011 17:20:33 +0100, Murat <murat.knecht-gM/[email protected]>
wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> we have groovy webtests, where we structure the code as follows:
> 
> 
> def someTest() {
>     asUser('Bill', "Make Order, verify and then regret it") {
>       makePurchase()
>       verifyCart()
>     }
> 
>    asUserDo('CustomerSupport', "Nullify Bills order") {
>      openOrdersOfCustomer('Bill')
>      nullifyFirstOrder()
>    }
> 
>     asUserDo('Bill', "Verifies orders has been nullified.") {
>       viewOrders()
>       verifyNoOrdersOpen()
>     }
> }
> 
> 
> Via superclass or Mixin, we define something like:
> 
> def asUserDo(commonName, title, Closure closure) {
>   group(description:title) {
>       login_as_user user:commonName
>       closure()
>       logout()
>   }
> }
> 
> Imho, this helps keep boilerplate code out of the tests, and, using
> "group", helps keeps the test reports readable.
> 
> Hope this helps, as I myself didn't find much documentation regarding
> webtest with groovy. :)
> 
> Regards,
> Murat
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 2011/1/20 Markus Strickler <[email protected]>:
>>
>> Hi-
>>
>> I've just started using Webtest following a pure groovy approach as
>> described here:
>>
http://mguillem.wordpress.com/2009/04/30/webtest-with-groovy-maven-and-eclipse/
>>
>> Now I'm wondering what's the best way to structure the tests.
>> Many tests will make use of common steps, like logging into the
website,
>> putting a product into a shopping cart, etc.)
>> So what I'm trying to achieve is being able to write tests like this:
>>
>>        webtest('My Test') {
>>
>>            addToCart(ean: 12345567)
>>
>>            login(user: user, password: pasword)
>>
>>            // some 'regular' webtest calls
>>        }
>>
>> Is anyone using webtest with groovy in a similar fashion? Also does
>> anyone
>> have pointers to non trivial examples of groovy webtests?
>>
>> Thanks for your help,
>>
>> -markus
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