Arquillian <-> JavaScript integration module status?

[marco.rietveld]

Hi,

I've been looking for a way to "integration" test JavaScript with a (Java) REST service. I noticed one or two posts about a JavaScript testing module (Jan -> Apr 2012), but haven't been able to find other information.

So, question 1: any word on the status of this?

What I'd like to do is have an (Arquillian) test that does the following:

1. Starts an (Arquillian) container for my REST service

2. Calls some JavaScript

     2a. The JavaScript calls one (or more) of my REST service methods.

3. My REST service beans do their stuff and reply back to the JavaScript.

4. This is a Unit test, so I measure whatever comes out of the JavaScript [1].

     4a. Or I measure some of the side effects of the REST service.

[1] Haven't really thought about that yet -- to start with it'd be nice to just get a "happy-flow" test that doesn't throw exceptions.

It doesn't look like Arquillian supports this at the moment. I've been thinking about using HTMLUnit to run the JavaScript, although I

So, question 2: It looks like Lukáš Fryč's post here details exactly that: a JavaScript module for Arquillian. Is that correct?

Thanks!

Marco

[lfryc]

Hey Marco,

this scenario is pretty much what is planned in Arquillian side-project for JavaScript testing:

• Arquillian deploys micro-deployment
  • (in your case with REST services)
• Drone provides Selenium-backed browser
  • (replacing HTMLUnit in your case)
• JavaScript integration starts unit-test (QUnit, Jasmine, ...) inside the browser
• JavaScript integration reads the results and reports to JUnit

This JavaScript integration is completely driven by JavaScript and unit-test frameworks, it means no need to write Java code in order to run test.

Chaitanya Nalla will be starting this project in a month, but if you would like to help to shape this extension, you are more than welcome!

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There is second option planned [1]  to achieve similar:

• interface for calling JavaScript from Java
  • such as QUnit/Jasmine test functions

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Additionally both approaches should effectively allow you to drive Warp and client/side server assertions, something what may be interesting for you as well.

http://arquillian.org/blog/2012/05/27/arquillian-extension-warp-1-0-0-Alpha1/

[marco.rietveld]

Hi Lukas,

Great! I look forward to testing Chaitanya's work. Unfortunately, I have too many other priorities and projects to actively contribute to the extension, although I expect to submit some jira's, if that's any help.

I'm trying to get more tests into the jBPM Designer (http://www.jboss.org/jbpm/components/designer, https://github.com/tsurdilo/process-designer).

Thanks also for pointing out Warp -- that will also be a big help.

Lastly, I was looking for an embedded container jax-rs + ejb test example, but haven't been able to find one. If I get a simple one running, would the arquillian-examples repository be the right place to submit a pull request with it to?

[lfryc]

Hey Marco,

there are some separated samples for JAX-RS and EJB here:

https://github.com/arquillian/arquillian-showcase/