Interop testing

[Steve Loughran <st...@iseran.com>]

Kellogg, Richard wrote:
> 
> I am interested in developing a test suite for Axis/.NET compatibility.  
> Was thinking of using NUnit for client side testing.  Any thoughts on 
> the topic?

I'm using nunit on my day job; testing COM code. It's ok.

One thing axis does that you cant do .net side is auto-generation of the 
test stubs, which is a shame.


> My impression is that we have way too many java based junit tests with 
> little documentation of what is actually being tested. 

every test tests a defect. If they work -why are you worrying?

More to the issue is coverage -what are we missing, etc.


>  
> Any work on this topic would have to be done on my own time.  Too busy 
> at work. 

likewise. I am not doing any SOAPy stuff at work right now, anyway.

We can also test axis client to NET server, for any system with IIS 
running nearby. I have demos of that in the code to go with 
the-wondrous-curse-of-interop talk.

Essentially Ant has the tasks needed to do the right thing, though 
ant1.6 has a vastly better <csc> task -I'd start there.