Testing package

The idea behind this package is to use junit in a different way. In a config file the test classes are defined which should executed.

The testing package contains a class TestFramework which implements the main method. This program reads a configuration file with name testcase.conf. This file will read by the BootManager and can be either in the local directory or neither in the classpath. The file contains a list of junit testcases. The testcases will run in the same sort order of the file entries.

Additional the testcase file can also contains some macro calls. Each macro starts with :: and followed by the macro name. The following macros are available:

  • verbose: the verbose macro enables/disables the jptools logger.
    examples: 

         ::verbose             # enables verbose mode
     ::verbose = on        # enables verbose mode
     ::verbose = off       # disables verbose mode

  • stop: this macro stops the processing.
    examples: 

        ::stop

  • The framework supports additional profile information of testcases. The profile can configurated with the following macros:

    • profileHistory: This macro defines the number of supported history profiles. As default there is no limitation.
      examples: 
            profileHistory = 10
    • profileUpdate: This macro stores the profile data after a run in the testcase.profile file.
      examples: 
            profileUpdate          # stores the profile data with a generated name
      profileUpdate = myTest # stores the profile data with the name myTest
    • profileCompare: This macro compares the current run with the last profile run.
      examples: 
            profileCompare
    • profileTolerance: This macro defines the profile tolerance.
      examples: 
            profileTolerance = 100  # profile time tolerance of 100ms
    • profileMemory: This macro enables the memory profile. This is currently experimental!
      examples: 
            profileMemory

    The framework implements also a simple GUI to compare profiles. The profile can be started with the testcasehistory.bat script.

The link testcase.conf shows a simple example.


Design

The classes LoggerTestCase enables to check and test log entries of the jptools logger. Different additional assert methods are implemented. To use this additional assert methods subclasses have to inherit from this class which is a junit TestCase class. The class DatabaseTestCase implements additional methods for database checks.

The class diagramm shows the relations between the library and the junit classes: