[jbosstools-dev] RE: waaay to many jars in junittests

[Victor V. Rubezhny]

Max,

It seems you right. And we don't need a full seam application to test the
issue.

I will try to reproduce it using jsf only.

Victor

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Max Rydahl Andersen [mailto:max.andersen at redhat.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2008 8:02 PM
> To: Max Rydahl Andersen; Denis Golovin
> Cc: jbosstools-dev at lists.jboss.org;
> external-exadel-list at redhat.com; ruby at exadel.com
> Subject: Re: waaay to many jars in junittests
>
>
> What is the status of this ?
>
> I just saw Victor commit yet another full seam 2 application to
> test *one specific issue* in JSF code completion.
> It cannot be true we need 80(!) files in each of our unittests.
>
> /max
>
> >> That's because it is real applications, so you can import it in JBoos
> >> Tools compile, deploy and run.
> >
> > What usage does that have ?
> >
> > The unit tests for testing 3-4 methods in an API have no reason
> for messing around with huge projects.
> >
> > e.g. I just committed a full junit test for testing the HQL
> query validation; that only requires 1 entity java class, 1
> ejb3-persistence.jar to get the annotations to compile - done.
> Much easier to maintain/extend and the unit test is much more
> focused - meaning less wheels to turn to make things work.
> >
> > Testing if a .xhtml page is rendered correctly does *not*
> require that the application is deployable...heck it does not
> even require  any jars as far as i'm concerned. It just requires
> a .xhtml page and that you can open the file in the editor -
> maybe the project needs to get JSF enabled to test some of the
> interactions when that is enabled; but you definitly need to
> check both scenarioes then (our jsf editor should be usable
> without the current project being fully configured)
> >
> > Note: having test that does the whole thing is relevant, but
> having a full app for each small test of important functionallity
> is a big overhead.
> >
> > /max
> >
> >> Max Rydahl Andersen wrote:
> >>> Hi guys,
> >>>
> >>> Why are we adding *tons* of duplicated jars and complete
> JSF/Seam projects just to unittests a few pages with templates?!
> >>>
> >>> I can't beleive all of those files are really necessary to
> check if a myfaces template page will render correctly.
> >>>
> >>> Could we please make sure our tests just include what is
> needed and not add tons of unused things. Thanks!
> >>>
> >>> /max
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> >
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