[seam-dev] Meeting 2011-09-07

[Jason Porter]

What may actually work well for all of this is if Arquillian supported
creating test suites, that may actually make this all go away :)

On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 18:29, Ken Finnigan <ken at kenfinnigan.me> wrote:

> Another option I've thought of is creating our own Maven plugin that does a
> similar job to unpack, but allows specifying which src dirs to link to in a
> project. Then see if the JBossTools guys can write an m2e addition that
> interprets the plugin correctly in the IDE to link the src dirs that were
> set in the configuration.
>
> Ken
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Sep 7, 2011, at 18:11, Dan Allen <dan.j.allen at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Thanks for the assessment of the test setup. I'm going to look it over,
> hopefully sitting down with Aslak at next weeks f2f and really exploring the
> problem in every way we can. I think we are close to the right solution, but
> I still want to consider some more options, even if it means modifications
> to Arquillian to make it work.
>
> -Dan
>
> On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 15:51, Ken Finnigan < <ken at kenfinnigan.me>
> ken at kenfinnigan.me> wrote:
>
>> Unfortunately I won't be able to make the seam-dev meeting today, I'm
>> blaming it on the newborn! ;-)
>>
>> To briefly mention the below agenda item regarding the testsuite, we've
>> found out that the best solution is to use the unpack plugin for Maven as
>> part of the build process to take the tests from the base module and add
>> them into the test-classes of a container specific module so that Surefire
>> will pick them up for testing.
>>
>> The major problem was always the IDE.  I think Jason has discovered a
>> solution for IDEA, and I found one for Eclipse.  The Eclipse solution is
>> within the container specific module for the testsuite to "link source" for
>> that project and link to the src/main/java and src/main/resources of the
>> base project module.  Doing this enables you to execute a single test, or
>> all the tests in the module, against the specific container of that module.
>> Another added bonus is that editing the test classes that have been linked
>> modifies them within the base module src path, ensuring that changes are not
>> lost and are committed to where they need to be.
>>
>> The one downside to the above approach for Eclipse is that running Maven
>> -> Update Project Configuration removes the source linkages that have been
>> added within the IDE.  I haven't had a chance to investigate this yet, but
>> I'm hoping it's possible to script the link source commands so that we can
>> provide those scripts with the modules to make it easy to add them back.
>>
>> Any questions or concerns please drop me a mail.
>>
>> If there's anything from the meeting that I need to look at please let me
>> know.
>>
>> Ken
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 4:03 PM, Jason Porter < <lightguard.jp at gmail.com>
>> lightguard.jp at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Agenda
>>>
>>>    - Follow-up from the last meeting (10 min)
>>>       - Cloudbees
>>>       - Docs
>>>       - Mail Tests
>>>    - Hack Night: Faces (10 min)
>>>    - Next Seam 3 release (15 min)
>>>       - I believe the next one is CR1
>>>       - Discuss moving to the testing structure (Ken and I believe we
>>>       have the bugs ironed out)
>>>    - Next week's meeting (5 min)
>>>       - All Seam devs will be having a meeting, may hold off
>>>
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