Hello Mickael,
Le 1/27/2016 10:43 AM, Mickael Istria a
écrit :
On 01/27/2016 10:28 AM, Aurelien
Pupier wrote:
Hi,
Hi Aurelien!
Did I misunderstood something?
Are there counterpoints to use fragments and maven-surefire-plugin?
Are there other examples which are matching more closely to my usecase
in jboss tools codebase?
About using fragments, the only drawback I'm aware of is that one
cannot add a dependency to a fragment from their plugin. So it's
not possible for other tests to reuse some logic that is inside a
fragment. In the spirit of "treating tests as 1st class citizen",
I believe it's generally better to allow composition of test
bundles and to make them regular bundles.
If reusable, the logic can be moved to a dedicated utility test
plugin.
About maven-surefire (plain Java) vs tycho-surefire
(OSGi/Eclipse), so far, we do not test the code of JBoss Tools
outside of the "Eclipse" context. We can debate about the meaning
of "unit tests", but what you see can be seen as "unit tests
running in integration context". Our experience with some other
parts of JBoss Tools have been that the difference of behavior
between inside or outside of Eclipse can be important. So our
policy has been so far to test everything with
tycho-surefire-plugin to make sure what we're testing isn't too
far from what will actually happen in production.
important difference of behavior which can be important is a good
argument. On the other hand, some integration tests should be able
to detect that.
The
QE people could tell you their opinion on what's more important
between fast tests, and longer tests that are closer from
production.
I guess it all depends, as always: we could imagine the unit test
running in plain Java to verify only their logic, but it shouldn't
become a replacement to some integration test to verify that the
logic also works in the right context.
Not planned to have them as a replacement. I already created the
structure to write also higher integration tests.
I
would say that as long as Eclipse is the *only* deployment context
for a piece of code, then starting unit tests inside Eclipse is
fine. Also, for fast unit tests, then they are neglictable
compared to starting up the OSGi Platform. So if we want to start
an OSGi platform anyway for integration tests, it seems simpler to
run those tests inside that Platform.
When running locally, I may want to run only unit tests first.
Without launching the OSGi platform it will be faster. It will also
allow to use some tools such as Infinitest to have continuous
feedback while developing.
HTH
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