Re: [xwiki-users] Recommendations on writing automated functional tests for xar extensions ?

Thanks Marius, that's exactly what I was looking for ! I'll follow that practice, BR, Jeremie 2013/3/20 Marius Dumitru Florea <mariusdumitru.florea(a)xwiki.com> > Hi Jeremie, > > We have started moving functional tests from xwiki-enterprise to > xwiki-platform so that they are grouped by functional domain. Thus > xwiki-enterprise-test-ui is not the best example. You should take a > look at the platform modules that have functional tests: > > > https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/tree/master/xwiki-platform-core/xwi… > > https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/tree/master/xwiki-platform-core/xwi… > > https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/tree/master/xwiki-platform-core/xwi… > > to name a few. The packager maven plugin is taking care of importing > (installing) your XAR and (I believe) adding the required jar > dependencies to the WAR. You should follow this practice. > > Hope this helps, > Marius > > On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 1:07 PM, Jeremie BOUSQUET > <jeremie.bousquet(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I would like to discuss a little on writing of Selenium2 tests, as > > described in test strategy [1], ie use Selenium 2 and apply Page > Objects > > pattern. > > > > My particular use-case is that I'm on a mission : write some > functional > > tests for my mail archive application. > > I also think these would be the best tests for my app, as it greatly > relies > > on 2 external interfaces (xwiki for persistence/conf, javamail and > mail > > accounts on another side). There are some good unit tests to write of > > course, but the main logic of the app has more meaning to be tested > in > > "real life", or close to that. > > > > To do that, I decided to try and plug myself in xwiki test > framework, in > > order to avoid redeveloping everything (such as deploying / > launching an > > xwiki instance from the tests). > > I added 2 modules in my project: > > - xwiki-contrib-mailarchive-test-pageobjects > > - xwiki-contrib-mailarchive-test-ui > > > > Both inherit from org.xwiki.enterprise:xwiki-enterprise-test pom, > and are > > greatly inspired from poms of xwiki-enterprise-test-pageobjects and > > xwiki-enterprise-test-ui poms. > > It's unfinished and untested, but I believe I'll be able to have > xwiki > > instance installed, launched, and tests run automatically. > > > > My main question, is how should I do in order to also deploy my app > in this > > wiki instance prior to run the tests ? > > For now I have several possible solutions that come to my mind, but > I don't > > know what would be the best... : > > A- > > - grab xwiki-standalone zip version x.y.z, unzip it, launch it > > - make EM install my application (call some REST API ? GET some > page with > > proper parameters ?) > > - run the tests > > B- > > - grab xwiki-standalone zip version x.y.z, unzip it > > - "patch" it in some way with my application binaries, (ie, add > things > > directly under permanent directory / extension / repository ?) > > - launch it and run the tests > > > > I personnally prefer A-, but it supposes also that the xwiki > instance knows > > any of my "dev" maven repositories (either my local repository .m2, > or my > > local instance of Nexus), so it would mean an additional step would > be to > > "patch" the standalone wiki xwiki.properties to add my personal repo. > > Or maybe I can add such repo programmatically in the wiki instance > from > > java by looking up and using the right component ? > > > > Maybe this point has already been solved by anyone, so if you have > any > > samples it would be good enough. I did not search exhaustively, but > I don't > > remember having seen such use-cases on existing extensions on github. > > Also, I think it might be interesting to extract from all this some > kind of > > maven archetype for functional testing of UI extension ? So > contributors > > could just call the archetype and get everything properly prepared, > and > > just have to add page objects and tests for their app ... > > > > WDYT ? > > > > BR, > > Jeremie > > > > > > [1] > > > http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Community/Testing#HSelenium2-basedFrame… > > _______________________________________________ > > users mailing list > > users(a)xwiki.org > > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list > users(a)xwiki.org > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users >