[jira] [Created] (JCLOUDS-771) Deprecate and destroy Expect tests; use MockWebServer instead

["Adrian Cole (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Adrian Cole created JCLOUDS-771:
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             Summary: Deprecate and destroy Expect tests; use MockWebServer instead
                 Key: JCLOUDS-771
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JCLOUDS-771
             Project: jclouds
          Issue Type: Task
          Components: jclouds-core
            Reporter: Adrian Cole


As I'm sure questions will arise.. why MockWebServer? Reason is that tests based on MWS are resilient to design changes.  Ex. we can completely replace how annotations are processed without rewriting the test. Moreover, unlike ExpectTest, MWS has no dependency on how jclouds represents http requests. That means that even changes to our class structure around http requests can be made without rewriting tests!

Once we decouple our tests from jclouds internals, we can change them.

Also, we divorce ourselves from having to maintain our own test framework which has caused problems in flakey tests as well difficulty in troubleshooting. Expect test was a nice idea but it was only partially realistic, yet took as much or more work to write classes for than MWS.



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