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

[Galder Zamarreno]

But thinking about this, should JBC be the one providing integration tests with Hibernate? Unlike JBDCCL where Cache is the client for AS, in Hibernate's case, it's Hibernate who's JBC's client and therefore, Hibernate should be the one tested.

>From JBC's point of view, we don't know what we need to do to Hibernate to confirm that is working correctly, it's not really our domain. IMHO, this is Hibernate's domain and it's this project who should include integration tests with JBC versions.

Galder Zamarreño
Sr. Software Maintenance Engineer
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-----Original Message-----
From: Ryan Campbell 
Sent: 16 January 2007 17:39
To: Manik Surtani; Galder Zamarreno
Cc: jbosscache-dev at lists.jboss.org; QA
Subject: RE: [jbosscache-dev] Testing JDBCCacheLoader - Embedding AS inside a UT?

The portal builds do something similar.  We have exploded jboss instances on cruisecontrol, and pass in their paths via system properties.

We don't have anything like this for hibernate, although this is pretty easy using <get/> and repository.jboss.com.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Manik Surtani [mailto:manik at jboss.org]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2007 4:05 AM
> To: Galder Zamarreno
> Cc: jbosscache-dev at lists.jboss.org; QA
> Subject: 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
> 
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> 
> 
> 
> On 16 Jan 2007, at 00:42, Galder Zamarreno wrote:
> 
> > I've been messing around with JDBCCacheLoader and I have realised
> > that we don't currently have a unit test that can test the
> > JDBCCacheLoader inside an AS. Ok, we have JDBCCacheLoaderTest that
> > can work based on the cache-jdbc.properties and you could start AS
> > manually and test it.
> >
> > This however is a manual process and when it comes to CC, only
> > standalone JDBCCacheLoader is being tested.
> >
> > I think it'd be ideal to basically extend JDBCCacheLoaderTest to
> > set it up to work with an AS (starting it/stopping it). This would
> > give us even more confidence and coverage for the
> > ManagedConnectionFactory area. I might not have time to do that
> > before I commit my current work for BETA1 but definitely something
> > worth bearing in mind.
> >
> > Another question would be of course, what AS version would be
> > integrate against?
> >
> > There're various projects out there that have done something
> > similar, first obviously AS itself and second messaging. What's
> > your experience with this? What have we learnt about it? Shall we
> > reuse some code for this? We would need a very limited AS version
> > actually with JNDI, JDBC Connection Pooling, HS and HS driver.
> >
> > As you can see, this opens ups whole bunch of questions. Thoughts?
> > Opinions? Critics?
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Galder Zamarreño
> > Sr. Software Maintenance Engineer
> > JBoss, a division of Red Hat
> >
> > IT executives: Red Hat still #1 for value http://www.redhat.com/
> > promo/vendor/
> >
> >
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