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Mark, Mohammad,

good idea... I'll request an account and start posting there once I get 
our release out (currently building a new RC for voting on).

Cheers
Dan


On 01/07/2011 09:31, Mark Struberg wrote:
> +1
>
> We also have project specific blogs on
>
> http://blogs.apache.org/
>
> I will ask on general if this is also available for incubator projects.
>
> LieGrue,
> strub
>
> --- On Thu, 6/30/11, Mohammad Nour El-Din<nour.mohammad@gmail.com>  wrote:
>
>> From: Mohammad Nour El-Din<nour.mohammad@gmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: junit viewer success story
>> To: isis-dev@incubator.apache.org
>> Date: Thursday, June 30, 2011, 8:09 PM
>> Perfect why not to write a blog or an
>> article about it and we publish
>> it on our site ?
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 9:31 PM, Kevin Meyer - KMZ<kevin@kmz.co.za>
>> wrote:
>>> Hi All, (Dan!)
>>>
>>> I just wanted to write a short note to say that I have
>> been using the Isis
>>> junit viewer to write application tests for an
>> application that I have been
>>> contracted to write.. and I think it works quite
>> well!
>>> Once I realised I had to (and remembered to) wrap the
>> appropriate
>>> domain classes (and services), the junit viewer has
>> helped me confirm
>>> such application domain issues as user rights (only
>> certain users can
>>> see certain properties, access certain methods, etc),
>> and general
>>> application usage (if I can't write a straight-forward
>> "test" to achieve the
>>> required functionality - it's too complicated).
>>>
>>> Combined with ecl-emma, I have reasonable confidence
>> that both the
>>> application and the domain classes are reasonably
>> exercised!
>>> At some point, though, it seems that I need to look
>> into ensuring that
>>> life-cycle methods are also included - it seems that
>> "validate" is not
>>> being called before persistance - but this is not a
>> blocker if you're
>>> aware of it.
>>>
>>> Anyway - it works, and I'm finding it very useful.
>>>
>>> A simple test looks like:
>>>
>>>     public void memberCanNotChangeOwnInitials()
>> throws Exception {
>>>         doLogin("voter@saip");
>>>
>>>         try {
>>>
>>   wrappedLoggedInMember.setInitials("X");
>>>             fail("Should have been disabled");
>>>         } catch (DisabledException e) {
>>>             // this is good!
>>>         }
>>>     }
>>>
>>> Perhaps someone else'll comment on style, but I think
>> these tests are
>>> quite clear.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Kevin
>>>
>>> PS: I have also written an authenticator to use a SQL
>> database. I will
>>> update the authentication, etc, documentation with
>> HOWTOs shortly.
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Thanks
>> - Mohammad Nour
>>    Author of (WebSphere Application Server Community
>> Edition 2.0 User Guide)
>>    http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg247585.html
>> - LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/mnour
>> - Blog: http://tadabborat.blogspot.com
>> ----
>> "Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you
>> must keep moving"
>> - Albert Einstein
>>
>> "Writing clean code is what you must do in order to call
>> yourself a
>> professional. There is no reasonable excuse for doing
>> anything less
>> than your best."
>> - Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship
>>
>> "Stay hungry, stay foolish."
>> - Steve Jobs
>>

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