[seam-dev] the parody of mocks in JSF

[Alexandr Smirnov]

Ok, do you start that project ? RichFaces uses Shale mocks now, but I
wish to replace that with something more convenient. I can help with
development and contribute existing test classes from richfaces to the
new mocks project.

Dan Allen wrote:
> On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 1:09 PM, Alexandr Smirnov <asmirnov at exadel.com
> <mailto:asmirnov at exadel.com>> wrote:
> 
>     The RichFaces test project has little bit more then simple mock objects;
>     it simulates a real web server which works with any JSF implementation,
>     and has integration with HtmlUnit as well, so it can be used for
>     functional and compatibility tests. I've been created that project
>     especially for JSF 2.0 tests ( because there are no mock projects for
>     JSF 2.0 api yet, and API was changing too often  ). But that project
>     really has no JSF or RichFaces dependencies, therefore it could be used
>     to test any web framework, including Seam as well.
> 
>     But using real implementation for simple test seems overloaded,
>     therefore it makes sense to combine 'staging' server with mock objects
>     too. Because that test environment has no direct references to
>     particular framework, we can make an independent test project,
>     applicable for both RichFaces and Seam.
>     Because we already have at least two candidates for common libraries (
>     that are tests and bean validators, the CDK seems as third ), I think we
>     should create 'common' module that will holds all shared libraries for
>     Jboss Seam and RichFaces projects.
> 
> 
> Frankly, to me, that's what Seam is...our common module. I don't want to
> introduce some new, generic name. Seam is the JBoss middleware module
> set. It's no longer a container of any sort. Web Beans is now the core
> programming model and RichFaces is the UI component set and programming
> model. So by depending on Seam, you are doing nothing more than
> depending on a common module in JBoss. Hence the reason I want seam-mock.
> 
> There are many needs for testing. I want to focus specifically in this
> module on completely standalone beans. No server logic. No real web
> calls or anything of the sort (*maybe* XML parsing in specialized
> subclasses). It is for unit testing, or as close to unit testing as you
> can get, with servlets and JSF APIs. We can of course have other
> modules. But this is the super lean one.
> 
> ...and yes, let's be sure to leverage all prior work...and work together ;)
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> -Dan
> 
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> Dan Allen
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