Soliciting ideas for Infinispan and Arquillian integration

[prabhat.jha]

Hello,

We have started brainstorming ideas for Infinispan and Arquillian integration. The goal obviously is to make it easier to use Infinispan with your test similar to how Arquillain has made integration testing with JBoss AS a lot less painful to the point that integration testing is fun. It would be good to get your feedback on what kind of integration you would like to see.

Thanks,

Prabhat

[alrubinger]

Have you seen this, for example?

https://github.com/arquillian/arquillian-showcase/blob/master/multinode/src/test/java/com/acme/multinode/grid/ClusteredCacheTestCase.java

It's based on having access to 3 remote AS7 processes, but the idea is the same (as you can see from the Infinispan Cache access in the test).  Would be great to have ARQ spin up N Infinispan containers as their own processes, deploy stuff selectively to them, then run your tests as appropriate.

S,

ALR

[prabhat.jha]

Thanks Andrew. Aslak had mentioned about that example and it's really a good one. I think there are two main categories

1. One is what you have mentioned above. To be able to configure and fire up n processes which is equivalent to firing up a n-node data grid with configurable end point such as HotRod and memcached and then have ability to start/stop (gracefully as well as abruptly) those instances as needed to verify replication and failover.  This is stand alone mode of Infinispan.

2. A simpler use case is where you annotate test and you get a cache manger to use in your test. This is In-VM mode.

Once my Brno team members come online tomorrow, they will have more scenarios and more concrete use cases to add.

[alrubinger]

Karel Piwko in Brno knows lots about ARQ as well, recommend tapping him to get your team jump-started.

S,

ALR

[prabhat.jha]

Yup, he is in loop.