5 Replies Latest reply on Oct 4, 2005 8:06 PM by walkerrl49

Suggested one-line addition to build.xml: Allow running just

walkerrl49 Sep 21, 2005 12:06 PM

In order to allow running a single test case without hacking the build file or deleting mass class files, make the suggested change to build.xml, run the build command with one extra define (-D) argument, testcase, and you should only have to sit through one test?s execution.

testcase is the classname to execute (with the redundant prefix, org.jboss.admin., omitted).

The output is placed in the output/ant/test-reports directory, but with a different prefix (TESTCASE, instead of TEST) to the testname, in order to facilitate distinguishing the two types of reports:

TESTCASE-org.jboss.admin.console.web.struts.jms.SaveDestinationActionTest.txt

TEST-org.jboss.admin.console.web.struts.datasource.FlushPoolActionTest.txt

 **** Sample output ****
C:\_dev\jack's\jboss-head\admin-console>build test -Dtestcase=console.web.struts.jms.SaveDestinationActionTest

Calling ..\tools\bin\ant.bat -logger org.apache.tools.ant.NoBannerLogger test -Dtestcase console.web.struts.jms.SaveDestinationActionTest

Buildfile: build.xml

test:

 [junit] Running org.jboss.admin.console.web.struts.jms.SaveDestinationActionTest

 [junit] Tests run: 1, Failures: 1, Errors: 0, Time elapsed: 0.781 sec

BUILD FAILED

C:\_dev\jack's\jboss-head\admin-console\build.xml:97: Test org.jboss.admin.console.web.struts.jms.SaveDestinationActionTest failed

Total time: 4 seconds

Here?s the one-line change. (It?s actually a 1.1-line change, because the batchtest element needs to know when not to run.)

 <junit ? 
 <test
 if="testcase"
 name="org.jboss.admin.${testcase}"
 fork="yes"
 outfile="TESTCASE-org.jboss.admin.${testcase} "
 todir="output/ant/test-reports"/>

 <batchtest 
 unless="testcase"
 fork="yes"
 todir="output/ant/test-reports">

Does anyone object, or wish to present an alternative means of achieving the desired objective (running a single test)?

Thanks,
Bob the dinosaur

1. Re: Suggested one-line addition to build.xml: Allow running

ccrouch Sep 21, 2005 12:15 PM (in response to walkerrl49)

The ability to just run a single testcase sounds useful.

Have you checked how the JBossAS tests (/testsuite) organizes it?

http://wiki.jboss.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=HowToRunTheTestsuite

If might be nice if we could have the same syntax.
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2. Re: Suggested one-line addition to build.xml: Allow running

walkerrl49 Sep 21, 2005 12:24 PM (in response to walkerrl49)

Thanks, Charles.

I agree, the fewer variations we have to memorize for acheiving the same end, the better.

I'll take a peek at the testsuite as soon as I get a chance.

Bob
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3. Re: Suggested one-line addition to build.xml: Allow running

walkerrl49 Sep 27, 2005 2:50 PM (in response to walkerrl49)
Charles (et al),

I looked at 'testsuite' to see what mechanism is used to run a single test. All I can find is a target named 'one-test' that executes the class denoted by the setting of the property 'test', as stated in the link you provided, above.

So, the syntax would look like:
cd testsuite build one-test -Dtest=org.jboss...myClassTest

I also took a closer look at my use of the term "test-case", and decided "test-suite" or "test-class" would be a better description. The 'test' element in a task allows execution of a single class file. As far as I can tell, the junit task doesn't support only invoking a single test method within a class.

So, shall it be "test"? And should this be a target? That weighs in a lot more than my one-liner, but is more flexible.
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4. Re: Suggested one-line addition to build.xml: Allow running

ccrouch Oct 4, 2005 1:19 PM (in response to walkerrl49)

The syntax should be the same as 'testsuite', i.e. we should have a 'one-test' target and you specify a '-Dtest=....' argument to indicate which test class to run.
While this will be more than one-line, I'm thinking it shouldn't be too much more, and will keep us consistent with the mother-ship which is a "Good Thing".

Further down the line JBoss Build may be extended to provide a default one-test target available to all projects, but until then we will have to make do with our own implementation. In fact you should feel free to add a feature request for this to the JBoss Build project...

http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBBUILD

Thanks
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5. Re: Suggested one-line addition to build.xml: Allow running

walkerrl49 Oct 4, 2005 8:06 PM (in response to walkerrl49)

I have implemented the feature as suggested in the previous post.

I also submitted a feature request to JBossBuild:

JBBUILD-166

Thanks,

Bob the dinosaur
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