XWiki solved that with a JUnit rule and an in-memory log appender. I beleive their test adds the log appender programmatically during the tests.
https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-commons/blob/master/xwiki-commons-core/xwiki-commons-test/xwiki-commons-test-simple/src/main/java/org/xwiki/test/LogRule.java On 28 Mar 2014, at 13:03, Sanne Grinovero <sa...@hibernate.org> wrote: > I had the same thoughts recently! > > My idea would be to have a Logger implementation which logs into an > in-memory buffer, which you can lookup somehow. For my own test needs, > even a static accessor would do. It could be a simple text > representation, or it could store a smarter event-list with some > assertion helper methods. A reset() method to be invoked at the end of > each test (or between tests as needed). > > I'd then remove Log4J from our test dependencies to primarily rely on > assertions only; or for debugging purposes to have it forwards > messages to System.out too - probably enabled by some environment > option - would be good enough. > > On 28 March 2014 11:47, Steve Ebersole <st...@hibernate.org> wrote: >> I again have in mind adding some test assertions that a particular logging >> (WARN) message gets triggered. We have already one such test in place, >> which is one of the places where our usage of byteman comes in. >> >> Given the problems using byteman is causing in CI and the fact that our >> reliance on it is pretty light at the moment, I wanted to reach out for >> some other ideas/proposals for ways to handle this testing requirement. I >> will also reach out to David and James to see if this is something JBoss >> Logging itself could help us tackle; maybe there is some feature there >> already that would help. Any other ideas/proposals? >> _______________________________________________ >> hibernate-dev mailing list >> hibernate-dev@lists.jboss.org >> https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/hibernate-dev > _______________________________________________ > hibernate-dev mailing list > hibernate-dev@lists.jboss.org > https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/hibernate-dev _______________________________________________ hibernate-dev mailing list hibernate-dev@lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/hibernate-dev
