Tennis may be misunderstanding the difference between what we (here in my organization) call a "test framework", which drives the automated execution of testcases and captures/reports the results, and a test "harness", i.e. a tool which provides libraries of functions and an infrastructure for writing and running tests. I've seen several people who are new to STAF/STAX who don't understand that distinction and think that STAF/STAX provide the whole thing. They are mistaken.
STAF and STAX (and STAX code that you write) can be used to implement a very robust test "framework". Other tools, like JUnit, Selenium, Rational Functional Tester, shell scripts, xUnit, or any number of other commercial or open-source products, can be used to provide the "test harness". ...then, the test "framework" can be set up to execute your test "harness" (e.g. by running a command on a test machine) to run your tests and capture the results. All of this can work together very smoothly to provide the mechanics behind test-driven development. In fact that's exactly the way my organization does it, and STAF and STAX are a cornerstone of our process. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joe Veilleux IBM/Lotus Domino Server Quality Engineering 550 King Street Littleton MA 01460 Email: joeveill...@us.ibm.com From: Sharon Lucas/Austin/IBM@IBMUS To: Tennis Smith <tennis_sm...@yahoo.com>, Cc: staf-users@lists.sourceforge.net Date: 03/25/2013 05:16 PM Subject: Re: [staf-users] Test-Driven Development (TDD) for STAX? I don't really understand your question. Test-Driven Development (TDD) basically means you first write an automated unit test case that defines a desired improvement or net function, and then produce the minimum amount of code to pass that test, and finally refactor the new code to acceptable standards, and repeat. You can write the test in whatever testing framework is appropriate to the software environment. STAF/STAX can be a very effective testing framework to do this. -------------------------------------------------------------- Sharon Lucas IBM Austin, luc...@us.ibm.com (512) 286-7313 or Tieline 363-7313 From: Tennis Smith <tennis_sm...@yahoo.com> To: staf-users@lists.sourceforge.net, Date: 03/24/2013 12:45 PM Subject: [staf-users] Test-Driven Development (TDD) for STAX? Hi, I'm trying to figure out a way to use TDD when working with STAX/Jython. So far, the only thing that looks feasible is to keep most logic in external python files and use pyUnit. There doesn't appear to be any easy way to run xUnit tests on the stax xml file contents. Is this correct? -- Tks, -Tennis ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_mar _______________________________________________ staf-users mailing list staf-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/staf-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_mar _______________________________________________ staf-users mailing list staf-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/staf-users
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