Re: [Phpwiki-talk] Cleaning up cvs

[Steve W. <sw...@pa...>]

thanks Reini!

~swain

On Sun, 23 Dec 2001, Reini Urban wrote:

> Steve Wainstead schrieb:
> > On Sat, 22 Dec 2001, Reini Urban wrote:
> >
> > > > 3)  Do we really need to distribute the tests directory?  The only people
> > > > who use it probably use cvs anyway.  I for one have not the faintest idea
> > > > what the tests are for!
> >
> > Automated, aggressive testing is a tennet of Extreme Programming and a
> > good idea... I haven't put much effort into the tests since the initial
> > import.
> >
> > I think as long as we are shipping developer versions (1.3 branch) the
> > tests can stay included, since they don't use much space. For a stable
> > release (1.2 or 1.4) they would be left out.
> >
> > The tests use a little system I wrote as a consultant for a small company
> > here in NYC. It's httpunit (Java) and Ant (from the Jakarta project). In a
> > sense it works like a browser and exercises a Web application as a user
> > would.
> >
> > >
> > > Yes, the testes inspired me yesterday to download the sun jre runtime,
> > > but then I needed another 30mb download for the complete sdk just for
> > > javac.exe
> > > is there any more info how to run the tests or where to get the needed
> > > classes, steve?
> > > sun j2sdk1.4.0-beta3
> >
> > Hmm. I thought I had a README in there. Doh. I can track this down and add
> > it. I had a little tutorial I wrote but I must not have included it.
> >
> > > $ javac AAA_GetHomePage.java
> > > AAA_GetHomePage.java:2: package com.meterware.httpunit does not exist
> > > import com.meterware.httpunit.*;
> > > ^
> > > AAA_GetHomePage.java:18: cannot resolve symbol
> > > symbol  : class WebRequest
> > > location: class AAA_GetHomePage
> > >             WebRequest          request;
> > >             ^
> >
> > Ja, you need httpunit in your $CLASSPATH. It's available from Sourceforge;
> > just download the jar file and add it to your $CLASSPATH. Then install
> > Ant, and you're all set.
> >
> > The tests don't work "out of the box" right now because I haven't figured
> > out how to give the tests a URL that will work anywhere (certainly doable,
> > like with 127.0.0.1 or a small config file the developer uses.. or even
> > parsing the index.php).
> >
> > After that it's a simple matter of writing more little test scripts. I'll
> > be able to make it test lots of things:
> >
> > login
> > diff
> > follow links
> > edit a page and make sure the change is there
> >
> > and many more. Then I want to set up a cron job to run the tests against
> > the alpha site every night after it's been installed, and send an email (I
> > read something on sourceforge recently on how to do that as well) with the
> > test results.
> >
> > It's just something that's been on the backburner for some time.
>
> I like the tests and enhanced the perl makemakebuild.pl to produce a
> better Makefile. So you can easily add more tests.
>
> I also tried to be independent of the ant executable and the build.xml
> for gnu make friends, just because it is easier to add tests.
> but this doesn't work yet, so it's commented out.
> java on windows depends on backslashes in pathnames which is a mess in my
> eyes.
> I would really need a cygwin java.exe
> And the latest j2sdk1.4.0 doesn't read getenv('CLASSPATH') anymore.
>
> I also added the basic docs into this file.
> And a simple scheme to add your personal test url.
> --
> Reini Urban
> http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/home/rurban/
>
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