How to reuse test methods (A/B integration testing) ?

[tvibes]

Hi everybody,

I would like to do some kind of A/B integration testing. Between my A tests and my B tests I only need to change what is deployed in the container.

To achieve that I have 2 classes, and I use inheritance to avoid code duplication on test methods (I have 24 test scenarios) :

/**
 * Test A
 */
@RunWith(Arquillian.class)
public class TestA {       
        
    @Deployment
    public static WebArchive createDeployment() {
          WebArchive archive = ...; //Put my stuff in the WebArchive

          //my JSF page for testA
          archive.addAsWebResource(new File("src/it/webapp/testA.xhtml"),    ArchivePaths.create("/index.html") );
          return archive;
    }
    
    
    @Test
    @InitialPage("/index.jsf")
    @BrowserVersion(Browser.FIREFOX_3_6)
    public void shouldDoSomething(JSFServerSession server, JSFClientSession client){
        //... nothing interesting here
    }

    @Test
    @InitialPage("/index.jsf?param1=value1")
    @BrowserVersion(Browser.FIREFOX_3_6)
    public void shouldDoSomethingElse(JSFServerSession server, JSFClientSession client){
        //... nothing interesting here
    }

    //[...]

    @Test
    @InitialPage("/index.jsf")
    @Cookies(names = {"aCookieName"}, values = {"aiuzshgtu"})
    @BrowserVersion(Browser.FIREFOX_3_6)
    public void shouldDoSomething_24(JSFServerSession server, JSFClientSession client){
        //... nothing interesting here
    }
}

/**
 * Test B
 */
@RunWith(Arquillian.class)
public class TestB extends TestA {

    @Deployment
    public static WebArchive createDeployment() {
          WebArchive archive = TestA.createDeployment(); //Reuse the WebArchive of testA
        
          //overrides my JSF page for testB
          archive.addAsWebResource(new File("src/it/webapp/testB.xhtml"),    ArchivePaths.create("/index.html") );
          return archive;
    }
}

Since last week it worked as we were using a (pretty) old Arquillian version (1.0.1.Final). I upgraded to the last version and it doesn't work anymore as Arquillian now supports multiple @Deployment annotated methods. So when I execute TestB class, Arquillian looks in TestA class, finds the @Deployment method and reports the conflict :-)

But I can't find a good design to achieve our A/B testing.

Is this use case is cover by Arquillian? Is someone here has already done that with Arquillian?

Some enlightment would be greatly appreciated (even a RTFM) :-)

I currently use :

• Arquillian 1.1.5.Final
• JSFUnit 2.0.0.Beta2