Hi Alexis,
Thanks for clarifying. It matches my earlier understanding - it is a
model regression testing tool. I am not saying it is not useful, just
wanted to define the terms so that we have an understanding of what
JEUT is.
Andrus
On May 16, 2008, at 6:27 AM, Alexis Willemyns wrote:
On a technical note, the best solution is to explain you an example.
As for
every layer in an application, unit tests are welcome. This is too
true for
the entities mapped via JPA. So if you want to test an entity, you
will
create an unit test class (for example with JUnit). In this class,
you will
add some tests. For example, you will write a test that create an
instance
of the entity, set values, persist the entity, retrieve the entity,
and
check if the retrieved object is exactly the same as the persisted
entity.
It allows you to control that your annotations are matching the
definition
of the real table in the database. You can do extra tests: check the
nullable attribute, the length attribute, the unique constraints,
and so
on... But if you want to test every aspect of your entity, you will
write a
big piece of code for each entity! If you have a model with 10, 20
or more
entities, you see directly the quantity of work. JEUT is designed to
automate for you the testing of an entity. You have just to create a
test
class that extends a specific JEUT test class and all the work is
done for
you. The framework uses the annotations discovered via reflection
API or the
XML files (orm.xml).
Do you understand the goal of JEUT?
2008/5/15, Andrus Adamchik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Hi Alexis,
I think it would really help if you started developing in the open
using
one of the free open source sites. This would provide the project
history to
a potential Champion, including access to the source code and
general feel
of whether you are really interested in building community around
your code.
On a technical note, what exactly does this framework test? Is this
regression testing (i.e. checking that the ORM schema matches the
actual DB
schema), or is there a value beyond that? We had a similar framework
submitted to the Cayenne project some time back, and I could never
understand what exactly is being tested.
Andrus
On May 15, 2008, at 9:57 AM, Alexis Willemyns wrote:
Hello all,
I was a little bit hesitant before posting this project
proposition. But
let's go! I hope that this attempt will be a success.
JEUT stands for "JPA Entity Unit Test" and is currently in
development. So
there is no public website and the code is ended up to 70%. JEUT
is a
testing framework for JPA entities and its main goal is to
automate the
test
of entities without the need to write long and boring home tests.
The mission is to provide a framework which is able to test the
matching
between entities using annotations and/or xml descriptors and the
real
database. A framework 100% compliant with all the existing
annotations in
JPA, for the current version 1 (and the future version 2... in the
future).
JEUT analyzes all the annotations and creates instances of entites
with
random values. It tries to persist these instances via the entity
manager
and reports the problems if existing. JEUT can be used as an
extension of
JUnit or TestNG, or maybe all others test frameworks.
For the moment, the team is only composed with me, and I have
discussed
with
my self about what is means to become an Apacha project. I am
aware what
are
the conditions, responsabilities and impacts to become an Apache
project.
I
am looking a Champion to go in the proposal phase (if the proposal
makes
sense) and to build a community around JEUT.
Thank you for any feedback and recommendations (and sorry for my
english
coming from Belgium).
I look forward to your responses.
Regards,
Alexis Willemyns
JEUT project founder
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