[ApacheDS] [Testing] New integration tests framework idea

[Alex Karasulu <ak...@apache.org>]

Hi folks,

I had just finished making this new snapshot feature work enough to just
revert changes made in tests to avoid these long integration tests when I
stumbled on a few ideas.  Incidentally this stuff is really cool.  I know
we're not totally where we want to be on it and still need to look into
Howard's draft but it works like a champion for now at reverting state for
testing.  I just saw it turn a test that takes 35 seconds to run happen in
under 5 seconds. So the theory holds and this work was not in vain.

Moving on though I found my self getting well acquainted with JUnit 4.4.  I
really like it a lot.  It's got some room for improvement but where it falls
short it can be extended.  And annotations with testing is a sweet
combination.

So I got to thinking about a new framework that extends JUnit 4.4 with a
custom runner and some custom annotations to make testing a breeze, easy to
document and it's components reusable.  I implemented a good chunk of a
prototype and started converting some integration tests to use this new
framework.  Before I continue I'd like some feedback since this will impact
all of us.  I wrote up the idea over here.

http://tinyurl.com/254gsu
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*Thoughts?

Thanks,
Alex*
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Re: [ApacheDS] [Testing] New integration tests framework idea

[Alex Karasulu <ak...@apache.org>]

On Nov 30, 2007 8:26 PM, Alex Karasulu <ak...@apache.org> wrote:

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> http://tinyurl.com/254gsu
>

I had to move this page to the correct location (space) so in case that URL
is broken just try this instead:

http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/DIRxSRVx11/ApacheDS+v1.5+Developer%27s+Guide


Alex