What is the best way to test a client business ?

[Thomas Sauzedde <ts...@miyowa.com>]

Hi everybody,

To cut a long story short, I need an advice for testing (unitary test
with JUnit / TestNG & Easymock) a CXF client.

The context :
- I'm working on a SOAP client (CXF of course) with asynchronous
response handling (Future <?> way)
- I cannot "modify" the server nor the WSDL (I'm only on the client side)
- I'm self confident in CXF ;-), I don't want to test all the "plumbing"
..., I'd like to test my business "only"
- I'm using a CI server (Hudson) and I'd like to avoid launching an http
server to unitary test my client.

What I've imagined is to "inject" some pre-formated response from stored
xml files (pre-formatted SOAP messages).
Those SOAP messages may contain "normal" responses or SOAP fault responses.

>From the CXF tests, I'm wondering if the local transport is the way to
do this ...
In this case, for what I've understood so far, I need to implement the
server side but it looks a bit overweighted to me.

Could someone tell me the best way to test my client ?

Thanks in advance

--
Tom

Re: What is the best way to test a client business ?

[Thomas Sauzedde <th...@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 7:19 PM, Ben Dean <Be...@ontariosystems.com>wrote:

> I would recommend SoapUI. The free version works pretty decently but the
> SoapUI Pro version can do some useful things such as using groovy scripts.
> Check it out at http://www.soapui.org. About half-way down the page they
> have links to run the programs with Java Web Start (although you need to buy
> a license to use the Pro version).
>
> -- ben


Thank you for this answer.

I'm already using soapUI to debug my client or to easily "capture" responses
from the real server.
BTW, in my previous email, the responses I already have, come from what
soapUI shows ;-)

But this is not an acceptable solution, because in this case soapUI acts
like a "normal" http server and this is not possible to me to have such a
thing on my continuous integration server :-(

I would prefer an autonomous (JUnit / TestNG / Easymock) way to test my
client.

But anyway, thank you again for your answer

--
Tom

RE: What is the best way to test a client business ?

[Ben Dean <Be...@OntarioSystems.com>]

I would recommend SoapUI. The free version works pretty decently but the SoapUI Pro version can do some useful things such as using groovy scripts. Check it out at http://www.soapui.org. About half-way down the page they have links to run the programs with Java Web Start (although you need to buy a license to use the Pro version).

-- ben

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas Sauzedde [mailto:tsauzedde@miyowa.com]
> Sent: Friday, December 19, 2008 9:30 AM
> To: users@cxf.apache.org
> Subject: What is the best way to test a client business ?
> 
> Hi everybody,
> 
> To cut a long story short, I need an advice for testing (unitary test
> with JUnit / TestNG & Easymock) a CXF client.
> 
> The context :
> - I'm working on a SOAP client (CXF of course) with asynchronous
> response handling (Future <?> way)
> - I cannot "modify" the server nor the WSDL (I'm only on the client
> side)
> - I'm self confident in CXF ;-), I don't want to test all the
> "plumbing"
> ..., I'd like to test my business "only"
> - I'm using a CI server (Hudson) and I'd like to avoid launching an
> http
> server to unitary test my client.
> 
> What I've imagined is to "inject" some pre-formated response from
> stored
> xml files (pre-formatted SOAP messages).
> Those SOAP messages may contain "normal" responses or SOAP fault
> responses.
> 
> From the CXF tests, I'm wondering if the local transport is the way to
> do this ...
> In this case, for what I've understood so far, I need to implement the
> server side but it looks a bit overweighted to me.
> 
> Could someone tell me the best way to test my client ?
> 
> Thanks in advance
> 
> --
> Tom
> 

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