Re: [jbosscache-dev] Testing JDBCCacheLoader - Embedding AS inside a UT?

Wow. I'd hate to add the weight of downloading (on the fly?) an AS version, starting and stopping it from within a unit test. As an immediate solution we could add this to the list of manual release procedures so it gets done with every release, but as you pointed out manual steps suck too. IMO, this falls into a category of integration tests (such as testing with Hibernate releases) which needs to sit outside of the usual cruise control runs and the functional test suite. I propose a more formal integration test suite (maybe with it's own cruise control target?) which: 1) Pulls down different versions of JBC and performs compat/interop tests (we already have these) 2) Pulls down different Hibernate versions and performs tests on these 3) Pulls down different AS versions and performs tests, including the JDBCCacheLoader with managed collections as well as other JBC 'use cases' such as SFSBs and HTTP Sessions 3.1) Different combinations of the versions in 2) and 3), to test EJB3 entity beans 3.2) Combinations including different JGroups versions So as you can see, we have a shit load of test combinations that can come out of this. I do see the value here though, it will even make QA's work in certifying JBC releases against AS versions and JGroups versions (and even Hibernate versions) easier. -- Manik Surtani Lead, JBoss Cache JBoss, a division of Red Hat Email: manik(a)jboss.org Telephone: +44 7786 702 706 MSN: manik(a)surtani.org Yahoo/AIM/Skype: maniksurtani On 16 Jan 2007, at 00:42, Galder Zamarreno wrote: