RE : [idea] need for a new cactus task?

[Sumati Chaturvedi <sc...@pivolis.com>]

Hi,

 

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De : Nicholas Lesiecki [mailto:ndlesiecki@yahoo.com] 
Envoyé : jeudi 10 juin 2004 19:23
À : Cactus Developers List
Objet : Re: [idea] need for a new cactus task?

 

This sounds like a key improvement to Cactus. After all, why have a 

client-side component at all? Perhaps webrunner will replace <cactus> 

entirely...

 

> I'm at a bit of a loss as to how to

> display results in end. any ideas?

 

I think ServletTestRunner already provides an output mechanism, but 

frankly I am not familiar with it.

 

->> Thanks, I'll check it out.

 

I think it's a great idea and I'm happy to have you contributing.

 

->> Cool! I'll get started on this then.

 

Regards

Sumati

 

 

Cheers,

Nick

On Jun 7, 2004, at 6:56 AM, Sumati Chaturvedi wrote:

 

> Hi all,

>

>

>

> Cactus doesn't have an Ant task for launching tests automatically
using

> the ServletTestRunner. I think this could be interesting for various

> reasons :

>

>

>

> -          it can help us test functionally the ServletTestRunner. I

> don't think there is any way to do this right now .

>

> -          the configuration would be much simpler. There would be no

> classpath settings to be done on the client. Just a one time setting
on

> the server would suffice.

>

> -          It provides a means for launching automatically tests using

> the ServletTestRunner.

>

> -          Any others?

>

> -          And finally, I'm relatively new to Cactus and I'd like to

> learn more about it while doing this!! :-))

>

>

>

> I've discussed this a bit with Vincent, and I'd really like to know 

> what

> you think too

>

>

>

> Following is one idea :

>

> The <webrunner> task (I've called it this for want of other ideas) 

> could

> extend JUnitTask. It could reuse to a large extent the existing 

> <cactus>

> task except that it would first http-connect to the Servlet Test 

> Runner.

> From then on, the Servlet Test Runner can take over as it would for a

> request coming from a browser. I'm at a bit of a loss as to how to

> display results in end. any ideas?

>

>

>

> What do you think?

>

> I could work on this.

>

>

>

> Regards,

>

> Sumati

>

>

>

>

Nicholas Lesiecki

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