[Jwebunit-development] RE: Problem with TestServer in debug mode

[James E W. <JEW...@th...>]

Heya,

Yes, the pseudo-server from httpunit was very good in that it allowed us to
write good functional tests for jwebunit, but it does have its downsides.

Keep in mind when you are testing this way - through the API against a
deployed web application, what you are doing is really more along the lines
of acceptance / functional tests rather than unit tests.  It may be
possible to write true unit tests for some of the engine code.  We did not
make much of an effort at this in jWebUnit.  If I had it to do again, I
probably would have more true unit tests in jWebUnit (via mock objects,
shunts, other techniques).

That doesn't solve the problem though - we still want good functional tests
regardless of unit-test coverage, and it makes sense with multiple engines
to want to swap out the engine and run the same suite of functional tests.

I'm not opposed to trying to transition the api tests to use jetty.  It
would require some work to get the various fake web pages we declare in the
tests separated into an app, and to programatically launch jetty with that
app when the tests are run.  And it would require us to include jetty as a
dependency for developers on the project.  I don't think that's too much of
a downside.  On the upside, using a real container for the app may allow us
to test some things we couldn't test against the httpunit pseuoserver.

jim




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Yeah thats what I thought.  A timing issue.  Or a socket issue.  I'm
getting
an IOException on the following from HttpUnitDialog.

                                     resp = wc.getResponse(new
GetMethodWebRequest(initialURL));
                         } catch (Exception e) {
                                     throw new
RuntimeException(ExceptionUtility.stackTraceToString(e));


That is a major bummer..  It hard to debug code in a run mode type of
environment.  Maybe I'll check the httpunit mailing list.  It looks like
TestServer uses a HttpUserAgentTest (psuedo server) from httpunit.  It may
be a config or bug in the httpunit class.

I might just have to use something more robust just for testing.  ie.
tomcat or something a bit smaller.  donno.

Nick

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Martijn Dashorst [mailto:ma...@da...]
> Sent: Friday, June 18, 2004 9:16 AM
> To: Nick Neuberger
> Cc: 'jwe...@li...'
> Subject: Re: [Jwebunit-development] Problem with TestServer in debug
> mode
>
>
> Nick Neuberger wrote:
>
> >But, when I stick a breakpoint in any test method of a test
> case, the test
> >always fails....  But in run mode, they work fine.  I think
> it has something
> >to do with the "TestServer" or its httpunit testing classes.
>  Any thoughts.
> >
> >
> I had the same problem when I tried assessing why the WebCookieTest
> didn't work.
>
> >Any thoughts on the "TestServer" class.  I need a psuedo type of mini
> >webserver for serving up pages for the jacobie integration.
> >
> >Anyone else have "debug" mode issues running the test cases?
> >
> >
> Yep, I also have these issues. I guess that some timeout on the rmi
> connection goes off.
>
> I am currently in the process of writing an article concerning the
> integration of jwebunit, jetty and your webproject. On our current
> project we are able to run the jwebunit tests in the same jvm as the
> project. This allows for easy debugging. Perhaps this is also
> a nice way
> to test jWebUnit itself.
>
> Martijn
>


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