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Re: [Fwd: Initial, simple implementation of TestNG-driven developer tests for GlassFish deployment now available]

From: Tim Quinn <Timothy.Quinn_at_Sun.COM>
Date: Fri, 05 May 2006 17:17:58 -0500

Thanks, Carla!

- Tim

Carla Mott wrote:
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> Subject:
> Initial, simple implementation of TestNG-driven developer tests for
> GlassFish deployment now available
> From:
> Tim Quinn <Timothy.Quinn_at_Sun.COM>
> Date:
> Fri, 05 May 2006 16:10:41 -0500
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> GlassFish quality community:
>
> Some new files are now available from the GlassFish repository - a
> very early implementation of using TestNG to drive developer tests.
> The particular example just checked in runs a test in the deployment
> section.
>
> If you are interested in looking at what we've done, running it, or
> commenting on it, please do the following:
>
> 1. Check out the GlassFish workspace including the appserv-tests
> section - or update your workspace if you already have one.
>
> 2. Visit http://www.testng.org to download TestNG. Part of what you
> get will be the testng jar file such as testng-4.7-jdk15.jar. Copy
> this file to
>
> ${your-GlassFish-workspace}/appserv-tests/lib/testng.jar
>
> Please note that you'll need to change the name to testng.jar (no
> version information embedded in the name) when you copy the jar file.
> This is just to save setting an additional environment variable.
>
> Also, note that eventually we hope to NOT require you to download
> TestNG separately, but for now this is the fastest way to get the work
> going.
>
> 3. Make sure to define the environment variable APS_HOME to point to
> ${your-GlassFish-workspace}/appserv-tests.
>
>
> 4. Because we are still very early in this work, there is one
> deployment devtest that is currently TestNG-enabled:
> appserv-tests/devtests/deployment/ejb30/ear/session. More tests - and
> not just deployment ones - will follow soon.
>
> To use TestNG to run the test, cd to
> appserv-tests/devtests/deployment/ejb30/ear/session and run ant like
> this:
>
> ant -f ${APS_HOME}/devtests/deployment/build-ng.xml
>
> You will see output that is very similar to the output from running
> the tests in the traditional way. (By the way, you can do that by
> running ant like this:
>
> ant all
>
> from that same directory.) One difference you will see is that the
> ending results are displayed by TestNG, which has managed the
> execution of the test from beginning to end. TestNG places several
> output files in the test-output subdirectory under the current
> default. Start by viewing index.html with a browser and navigate
> using the left-hand panel for more details.
>
> Please keep in mind that this is an early implementation. There is
> surely plenty of room for improvement. Also, we wanted to make sure
> we did not interfere with the existing test infrastructure while
> making these early efforts available to the community. So if the
> steps above seem a little cumbersome, please bear with us.
>
> Of course, we welcome your feedback via this alias.
> - Tim
>
>
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