SeamTest (Using Seam 2.1.1.GA) seems to throw away conversations when an action is invoked that either starts a pageflow (See my page on testing pageflows) or when that action returns a viewId:

  /**
   * Action that returns a view id
   */
  public String someAction(){
    return "/someViewId.xhtml";
  }

And the corresponding test:

String cid = new FacesRequest("/somepage.xhtml") {
              
     @Override
     protected void invokeApplication(){
         invokeAction("#{someComponent.someAction}");

            // assertion succeeds
            assert isLongRunningConversation();
     }
               
}.run();

new FacesRequest("/firstpageinflow.xhtml", cid) {
    @Override
     protected void invokeApplication(){
            // assertion will fail!
         assert isLongRunningConversation();
     }
}.run();

This makes it utterly impossible to properly write integration tests, since I can only test individual views but not the complete user interaction. Even worse, views that require certain preconditions (created by a previous user interaction and stored in the conversation context) thereby become untestable.

Is there any reason for this behavior? Is there any known workaround, or am I doing something completely wrong here? I'd be really grateful for help.

Cheers
Arno