[abbot-users] Using abbot in complex scenarios

[Jean-Francois P. <jfp...@ya...>]

Hi,

I would like to define a complex test scenario with
Abbot, in this scenario, I will actually launch TWO
GUI applications so that I can check the events
exchanged between these (from the user's viewpoint).

First I had thought about defining 2 independent
scripts using forked mode (at least for one of them)
and then create a specific JUnit TestCase that would
launch both scripts at the same time (by starting a
Thread to launch one). Although I believe this
solution would work, I don't like it much because it
splits the compelx scenario in 2 different scripts,
which anybody could believe can run independently of
each other (which is not correct of course).

Then I had a better idea that would consist in having
a specialized abbot Step, let's call it "parallel",
that would contain sub steps (like a Sequence) but
would launch these steps in parallel. Is this is a
good idea? Did someone already start working on the
same kind of thing (I am a bit lazy and also in a
hurry so I'd prefer find something "out of the
box";-))

In case this does not exist, any piece of advice on
how to write such a class would be appreciated (please
note that I am still a newbye to abbot, only 3 weeks
of use, working exclusively with costello, no
hand-written JUnit test case).

Cheers

Jean-Francois


	

	
		
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