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From: "Gabriele Carcassi" <carcassi@bnl.gov>
Subject: Re: Testing client server communication
Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2004 22:50:33 -0500
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Hi Vincent,

Thanks, I see it more clearly now, and will simply use mock objects. I knew
I was doing something wrong, but couldn't really put my finger on it. I had
read thousands time before that cactus is for server side, but I guess it
didn't really "click" until today. I got stuck into thinking: well, I want
to test also the server...

In fact, I think I will use cactus to test my application, just not these
test cases...

Thanks again!
Gabriele


"Vincent Massol" <vmassol@pivolis.com> wrote in message
news:002501c4093d$ba397800$2502a8c0@vma...
> Hi Gabriele,
>
> Cactus is about *unit testing* *server side* components. It doesn't
> address client side unit tests nor functional end 2 end tests.
>
> Thus I confirm Cactus is not adequate for your need.
>
> Why don't you simply use JUnit + mock objects/stubs?
>
> Thanks
>
> -Vincent
> Wanna see JUnit in Action?
> (http://manning.com/massol)
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: news [mailto:news@sea.gmane.org] On Behalf Of Gabriele Carcassi
> > Sent: 13 March 2004 19:20
> > To: cactus-user@jakarta.apache.org
> > Subject: Testing client server communication
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I don't seem to find a clever way to use cactus to test the
> client/server
> > communication of my application. I wonder if any of you can provide
> with
> > an
> > insight, or can confirm that cactus is not sufficient.
> >
> > I have two classes, Client and Server. The first has a set of
> > Client.fireXxx, and the other has a corresponding set of Server.onXxx.
> > Calling Client.fireXxx will trigger an http client to connect to a
> > servlet,
> > which then calls the Server.onXxx methods.
> >
> > I want to test the communication: in the setUp pop up the client and a
> > mock
> > server, and have a testXxx call the Client.fireXxx and test whether
> the
> > mock
> > server received onXxx.
> >
> > How would you do it?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Gabriele
> >
> >
> >
> >
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