[wildfly-dev] New test suite for the management console

As a follow-up on [1], I wanted to let you know that we set up a new test suite for the management console: 'hal/manatoko' [2]. The motivation for the new test suite was to address some weak points with the existing test suite 'hal/testsuite.next' [3]: - Still on Arquillian 1.6, JUnit 4 - Weak SoC (separation of concerns) - Hard to run in a CI environment The new test suite was developed with the idea that each test should be self-contained. This is possible by leveraging the Testcontainers [4] framework. WildFly, the management console, and browsers run in containers, and the unit tests can focus on testing the UI and verifying the modifications in the management model. This approach makes running the test suite in CI environments very easy. We already do this using GitHub actions [5]. Currently, the new test suite doesn't contain all tests from the existing test suite. But we already migrated 27 of 34 test modules. The migration requires effort, but the new unit tests can re-use classes from the existing test suite, such as Arquillian pages and constants from the HAL code base. In the next month, I'd like to migrate the remaining tests from 'hal/testsuite.next' to 'hal/manatoko'. If you want to learn more, browse the README.md [6]. If you have any questions or any ideas or want to get involved, leave a comment or reach out to me. Best regards Harald Pehl --- [1] https://lists.jboss.org/archives/list/wildfly-dev@lists.jboss.org/thread/... [2] https://github.com/hal/manatoko [3] https://github.com/hal/testsuite.next [4] https://www.testcontainers.org/ [5] https://github.com/hal/manatoko/actions [6] https://github.com/hal/manatoko#readme