Running SeamTest-based tests inside an applicatoin server

[dmitriy.lapko]

Is there any way to run integrational seam-tests inside application server? Something that should tell SeamTest not to start a new environment but use existing and just simulate JSF lifecycle?

[pmuir]

Override the startJBossEmbededdedIfNecessary method with an empty body.

[dmitriy.lapko]

Thank you for answer, I tried to override it and the test started, but it breaks the application.

I get

WARNING: No active application scope
java.lang.IllegalStateException: No active application scope
 at org.jboss.seam.core.Init.instance(Init.java:75)

after its work.

And before test there is warning:

"There should only be one Seam phase listener per application"


So the problem is in method BaseSeamTest.init:

public void init() throws Exception
 {
 startJbossEmbeddedIfNecessary(); // We should skip it

 application = new SeamApplication( new MockApplication() ); // reuse here existsing application
 phases = new SeamPhaseListener(); // reuse existing phase listener

 servletContext = new MockServletContext(); // reuse context
 initServletContext( servletContext.getInitParameters() ); // don't initialize it

// And more and more...

 ServletLifecycle.beginApplication(servletContext);
 new Initialization(servletContext).create().init();
 ( (Init) servletContext.getAttribute( Seam.getComponentName(Init.class) ) ).setDebug(false);
 conversationViewRootAttributes = new HashMap<String, Map>();
 seamFilter = createSeamFilter();

 for (ELResolver elResolver : getELResolvers())
 {
 application.addELResolver(elResolver);
 }

 }

I mean, it looks like there should be done a lot of things to use tests in working application for testing deployment and web server compatibility.

Am I right or there is more simple way?

[pmuir]

So you'll need to override init() :) Let us know how you get on. This could be of interest to others. You might also want to look at something like Selenium for testing inside an app server.

[dmitriy.lapko]

Yes, I managed to run SeamTests inside application server. I create TestNG instance, set the list of tests and call method run with overwritten empty startJBossEmbededdedIfNecessary(because I'm using Tomcat). And to omit previous posted error I just start TestNG in a new Thread, so all Seam's ThreadLocal variables are new and are not overwritten by newly started Seam Framework instance. Works pretty good :)

Results of tests I show dynamically on a page by a:poll tag. Clients are impressed :)