[Cobalt-developers] How to add new automatic tests (was: Re: Is there more documentation about BOSS?)

[Harri <har...@tu...>]

On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 15:11:24 +0100, Daniel White wrote:
> The documentation supplied with BOSS may contain more information than
> the website. Also, if you are interested in modifying the system then
> you will need to be able to compile the code and once you can do this
> you can also generate the Javadoc for the source code. If you have
> more specific questions I would be only too happy to help.

The online manuals are rather useful and I wish I had them at hand when
I was evaluating BOSS earlier. I think it would be useful for others to
read when they evaluate BOSS and compare it to other alternatives. Could
they be put on your www-server so that they would be more easily
accessible?

I've got BOSS compiled and javadoc generated with gjdoc. I've read parts
of that documentation.

I've looked at some of the code.

At the moment I'm lookin for ways to add different kinds of automatic
tests. It would seem to me that it would require at least one new class
in boss/testing but I don't know what is required to hook it up in the
rest of the BOSS.

It seems to me that also at least on new class has to be introduced in
boss/ for the interface of the settings for the test type.

I would appreciate some helpful hints how to do this, and information on
what I need to pay attention to while doing it.

Also it looks to me that it is only possible for an automatic test to
fail or pass instead of a rating from 0 to 10 or similar, is this true?
What would be required to change this.

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For those information that are interested in BOSS's compatibility with
free software implementations of Java tools:

izPack can't be run on free jvm's such as kaffe, sablevm others since
there is no support for swing. So I didn't try further with those, but
installed j2sdk-1.4.

For reference to others:
- free implementation of Java Mail API called GNU JavaMail didn't seem
  to work with BOSS. An Exception that I can't remember was thrown when
  tried to send the user her password.
- free ipmlementation of JavaBeans Activation Framework called GNU JAF
  did seem to work with BOSS
- free implementation of Java Servlet API from Apache Jakarta project
  seems to work with BOSS



Yours,
Harri J=E4rvi