[jira] Commented: (DIRSNICKERS-61) A Snickers Testing Framework

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     Author: Wes McKean
    Created: Wed, 2 Jun 2004 10:39 AM
       Body:
I have quite a number of serialized PDUs that I created while I was doing some proof of concept stuff for NIO streams.  I'll track these down and come up with a testing framework for SNICKERs.
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        Key: DIRSNICKERS-61
    Summary: A Snickers Testing Framework
       Type: Wish

     Status: Open
   Priority: Major

    Project: Directory Snickers
 Components: 
             General

   Assignee: Alex Karasulu
   Reporter: Alex Karasulu

    Created: Fri, 28 May 2004 11:50 PM
    Updated: Wed, 2 Jun 2004 10:39 AM
    Due:     Sun, 1 Aug 2004 12:00 AM

Description:
At the present moment the only thing really holding us in the incubator is the dependency on SNACC4J.  Right now we don't really need to depend on it if we had a testing framework in hand where static serialized PDU's with known values can be tested with Snickers.  Even when Snickers is fully functional a testing framework will still be required.  We can't keep SNACC4J lying around even if it is just there to test for correct Snickers operation.

To solve this problem we can create a special test case data file.  These test cases can contain a serialized copy of the Java object representing the Message and a copy of the encoded PDU.  Bi-directional transformations can be performed and verified to test decoders and encoders this way.  All that is needed is a utility for generating these test case data files.  An extention to JUnit can be written to test correct encoding and decoding to and from the target objects.  These tests can also be used test the performance of encoders and decoders. 

We could create a simple XML based test case data file that contains base64 encoded raw data elements like so:

<snickers-testcase>
  <id>12345</id>
  <object>[base64encoded]</object>
  <pdu>[base64encoded]</pdu>
</snickers-testcase>

The base64 encoded data can even be split into separate lines to keep the file sort of human readable.  We can build a UI to generate these files that uses SNACC4J and the project can reside on SF.net.  Once we have the set of test case data files we need snickers never needs to look back at SNACC4J.  


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