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Re: [Cppunit-devel] distributed environment

[Gary G. <gr...@at...>]

Hello Armin,

I can suggest an alternative method of distributing the tests.  I wanted to
run tests on a C++ application from the existing JUnit GUI, so I wrote a
CORBA IDL for some of the CppUnit interfaces.  This was relatively easy to
do because the interfaces were simple and well-defined.  Then I added CORBA
implementations for Tests and TestCases to the CppUnit library which serve
as proxies for the actual Tests and TestCases in the C++ test application.
So any Tests written using the existing CppUnit library could also be
called remotely through CORBA.  This method avoids serialization, the front
and back ends could be completely different architectures, different
languages, and you could choose between the MFC GUI and the Java GUI.  It
was especially convenient for Java since CORBA is readily available, but I
think a C++ front-end would also be possible.

You can grab the source for my modified CppUnit and some simple READMEs
from the UnixCppUnit section of my home page:

     http://www.atd.ucar.edu/~granger

The modifications were based on an older version of CppUnit, but perhaps
the example will still be useful to you.

gary

Re: [Cppunit-devel] distributed environment

[Baptiste L. <gai...@fr...>]

I was about to suggest something among the same line:
- on the server side, grab the root suite. Traversing the test hierarchy
from the root suite, rebuild a hierarchy made of test proxy that can be
called from the client (the Test::run() also need to transport the Exception
that may be thrown).
- on the client side, retrieve the test proxy root suite and pass it to the
MFC test runner.

I think that implementing this can be fairly simple: you 'only' need a
generic implementation of the test proxy, one for the server side, and one
for the client side, as well as transporting CppUnit::Exception information.

Baptiste.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Gary Granger" <gr...@at...>
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Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2002 7:21 PM
Subject: Re: [Cppunit-devel] distributed environment


>
> Hello Armin,
>
> I can suggest an alternative method of distributing the tests.  I wanted
to
> run tests on a C++ application from the existing JUnit GUI, so I wrote a
> CORBA IDL for some of the CppUnit interfaces.  This was relatively easy to
> do because the interfaces were simple and well-defined.  Then I added
CORBA
> implementations for Tests and TestCases to the CppUnit library which serve
> as proxies for the actual Tests and TestCases in the C++ test application.
> So any Tests written using the existing CppUnit library could also be
> called remotely through CORBA.  This method avoids serialization, the
front
> and back ends could be completely different architectures, different
> languages, and you could choose between the MFC GUI and the Java GUI.  It
> was especially convenient for Java since CORBA is readily available, but I
> think a C++ front-end would also be possible.
>
> You can grab the source for my modified CppUnit and some simple READMEs
> from the UnixCppUnit section of my home page:
>
>      http://www.atd.ucar.edu/~granger
>
> The modifications were based on an older version of CppUnit, but perhaps
> the example will still be useful to you.
>
> gary
>
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