SMILA/Development Guidelines/Howto set up test environment

Howto set up test environment

Introduction

There are no specific steps to do for a test environment. You only have to follow the steps, that are describted in Howto set up dev environment. And you have to develop your tests with Junit 3.8, because at the moment the build process is running the tests with Junit 3.8, too.

All test bundles in SMILA now contain a launch configuration that should "just work", so the following steps of setting this up are only necessary for new test bundles. In this case you should consult the rest of this page, but also have a look at existing test bundles for details, e.g. which bundles to start in the config.ini.

Commons Logging for Tests (Junit) in Eclipse

Please add a log4j.properties to your Eclipse Configuration Folder:

sample configuration File:Log4j.properties.zip

and add to every Junit Plugin Test Launch Configuration the following VM Arguments:

-Dorg.apache.commons.logging.Log=org.apache.commons.logging.impl.Log4JLogger 
-Dlog4j.configuration=file:${eclipse_home}configuration/log4j.properties -Xms40m -Xmx256m

Eclipse can be configured that it will add this lines every time a Junit Test Plugin Launch Configuration is created.

Following Configuration is needed for this:

Specific configurations for tests

Some test bundles contain additional configuration or test data files, you can recognize this in that the bundle contains a folder configuration. In this case usually the following VM arguments must be set:

 -Dorg.apache.commons.logging.Log=org.apache.commons.logging.impl.Log4JLogger 
 -Dlog4j.configuration=file:configuration/log4j.properties 
 -Dorg.eclipse.smila.utils.config.root=./configuration

Additionally, there is often a config.ini file in this configuration folder that describes which bundles have to be autostarted before the test can run to enable the services to be tested. In this case, you can configure the test launch to use this file on the "Configuration" tab of the launch dialog by selecting "Use existing configuration file as a template" and entering ${workspace_loc:<name of test bundle>/configuration/config.ini} as the location. E.g. for bundle org.eclipse.smila.processing.test it should look like this: