Re: [Httpunit-develop] Keep the WebConversation state?

[Stefan G. R. <Ste...@we...>]

On Friday 24 May 2002 10:39, you wrote:
> I’m new to the HttpUnit test tool.
>
> After going through the tutorial and playing with some own tests I
> haven't been able to figure out how to keep the state of the
> WebConversation between the different tests in a TestCase. I've tried to
> override the setUp() method but that method runs before every test in
> the testcase.
>
> If one test changes the state of the WebConversation the next test
> should be able to continue to do another test on that state of the
> WebConversation. How do I accomplish that?
>
> /Daniel
>

Hi Daniel,

I assume you talk about JUnit and HttpUnit in concerto.

Best to avoid test cases depending on each other -- you'll run into trouble 
that's hard to track down. For example, TestSuite uses reflection to find the 
testXXX methods of a TestCase, but there's no guarantee of the order of the 
methods. Therefore, if you want a specific order of testXXX methods, you  
have to provide an implementation of the method suite(), which means you have 
to maintain the construction of the test suite -- something errorprone and 
better avoided.

Can you refactor your testcode so you can call parts of your test? This leads 
to something like this:

void partA() {
   // do the usual request/response stuff, some assertions, ...
}

void partB() {
   // do the usual request/response stuff, some assertions, ...
}

public void testStep1() {
   partA();
   assert( /* outcome of first part */ );
}

public void testStep2() {
   partA();
   partB();
   assert( /* outcome of second part */ );
}

Hope this helps, ciao
	Stef