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Hello,
I was wanting to get some ideas of some good automated testing tools. Can you help?
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What is it that you are looking to test and at what level? For example, there are tools that help to unit test Java classes right up to tools that automate functional testing of GUIs.
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I would like to know the Automated Unit testing tools for Java apart from JUnit, since JUnit is not much Helpful atleast in terms of our project. Its Urgent..?
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Why is JUnit not useful? What are you trying to test?
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First is we cant test the methods returning void properly using JUnit and it tests only the return types of the methods and its a tedious process to call the methods with different sets of data again and again...
And as we have very less time for project we are looking at automated UNIT testing tools...
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I think that you can get tools that can generate JUnit tests for you, but these will only provide you with the basics. Just because a method returns void doesn't mean that it can't be tested with JUnit. For example, what does that method do? If it modifies internal state, then you can run assertions upon that. If it inserts data into a database, then you can write a test to check that it is there.
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I guess it would of helped to explain more. We have a web application in WebSphere that is using JSP, Servlets, and EJB's. We are looking for software that will do unit testing that is automated. So that each time we deploy a script can be run to test the site. We are currently looking at Segue's silktest, but we are wanting some other software to compare it to. Can anyone help?
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Trish
 
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If u want to do Java API level testing then
there are tools like Cactus
Cactus can be used to test all server side Java components
 
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Originally posted by Patricia Fulk:
I guess it would of helped to explain more. We have a web application in WebSphere that is using JSP, Servlets, and EJB's. We are looking for software that will do unit testing that is automated. So that each time we deploy a script can be run to test the site. We are currently looking at Segue's silktest, but we are wanting some other software to compare it to. Can anyone help?
Thanks,
Trish


Actually this sounds more like functional testing to me...
Regardless, you may want to take a look at HttpUnit. It is a fairly good automated web testing tool and the price is right.
[ March 03, 2003: Message edited by: Chris Mathews ]
 
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I agree with Chris - sounds like you want to test the functionality provided by your application, often called functional or acceptance testing.
This page over at the JUnit website lists some more frameworks that you can use to do this.
Hope that helps
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So does JUNit do GUI testing just like SilkTest does other then unit testing of the code...
 
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Originally posted by Johny bravo:
So does JUNit do GUI testing just like SilkTest does other then unit testing of the code...


SilkTest is a functional testing tool while JUnit is a unit testing tool. In other words, no, JUnit doesn't do GUI testing just like SilkTest does.

However, there are a couple of JUnit "extensions" that make it possible to write JUnit tests that exercise a GUI written in Swing, for example.

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If you want to go with a JUnit extension, I'd advice to use either HtmlUnit or JWebUnit.

Alternatives are FitNesse (with HtmlFixture), Canoo Webtest and a myriad of other tools (sorry, can't be more specific, I haven't yet tested web applications at the functional level).

Whatever tool you choose, though, if you are really short on time, you best invest a *significant* amount of it in creating good tests - they will save you later.

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Well.. any automated testing tool for J2ME based projects ?

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Originally posted by Arijit Ghosh:
any automated testing tool for J2ME based projects ?


Google tells all. In this case, J2MEUnit.

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Not looking for Unit Testing.. Anything for functional testing ? Anything for verification of correctly generated JAR and JADs ?

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Originally posted by Arijit Ghosh:
Anything for verification of correctly generated JAR and JADs ?

Would Antenna's preverification task be what you're looking for?

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