[rules-users] Guvnor test scenarios for rules that use globals

[Tihomir Surdilovic]

For your scenario it seems that you would benefit from using the 
supported Drools and Guvnor (BRMS). It would allow you to get fixes for 
your specific needs (via supported patches) and not have to worry about 
new features included alongside your fixes in the community releases.

Regarding >> ...and it was much easier to maintain everything under our 
own IDE (e.g. keeping domain model in synch with rules; archiving; 
deploying). << if indeed you are thinking of using Guvnor in the future, 
it would be nice to actually tell us specific cases that you would like 
to see improvements on, rather than just saying that it was much easier 
to do something else, and also not providing details on this "else" 
which could help us determine what improvements could be made in Guvnor 
too :)

Thanks.

On 9/16/11 5:44 PM, lhorton wrote:
> The project I'm on needs to be stable by the end of this month for rules.  We
> started evaluating Guvnor in April (5.1 release).  We ran into several
> problems.  For example:
>
> enums didn't work in guided rules
> loading some rule spreadsheets failed
> we have domain classes with private no-arg constructors and Guvnor didn't
> handle these by reflection
> above classes also couldn't be used in guided tests
> inability to test rules that used globals
>
> I know some of these have been fixed (you fixed the spreadsheet problem that
> I had, I think) but our evaluation was that we could not wait to see if
> things got fixed in time, and my management had resistance to changing our
> domain model to conform to Guvnor requirements.  We had a vision that Guvnor
> would allow non-technical business people write rules, but we ended up
> having to write technical rules due to the various problems.
>
> We also found that writing DRL and using spreadsheets outside guvnor for our
> rules was working ok, and it was much easier to maintain everything under
> our own IDE (e.g. keeping domain model in synch with rules; archiving;
> deploying).
>
> Guvnor looks like it is improving with every release.  I will keep
> re-evaluating it when new releases come out.
>
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