EAR Automated testing

[Mariano Austral]

I'm developing a web services based application. I'm using JUnit for testing components. We need to test it with different types of data, so it's loaded from an external source to do it better and faster.

Now I have a problem. After building and deploying my app, I need to keep on testing it. I need to run some sort of test suite (it could be the junit test cases) periodically from outside the ear.
I can't use maven because the app is already build and i don't want to re-build it.
Is there any framework for this specific test? maybe i could add a class with a main method that calls my JUnit classes like maven does, but i would like to know if there already is an open source tool that suits for this problem (i don't want to reinvent the wheel)

Thanks in advance!

[Jeanne Boyarsky]

Mariano,
Welcome to JavaRanch!

If your web service is an EJB, you could make a remote call from outside the EAR. You should be able to do that for any type of web service for that matter.

[Roger Chung-Wee]

Ideally, you need an automated test harness which will read the data files, build the requests and submit them via the web service. I don't know of any open source for this, in our department we hand-built our test harnesses.

[Ilja Preuss]

Originally posted by Mariano Aaaaa:

Now I have a problem. After building and deploying my app, I need to keep on testing it. I need to run some sort of test suite (it could be the junit test cases) periodically from outside the ear.

What is your goal? What do you need to do this for?

[Mariano Austral]

Thank you fot the welcome! n_n

What is your goal? What do you need to do this for?

Mostly because of regresion tests. We release new versions quite often and the Q&A guys can't perform all test cases on time, so we are looking for an automated way of doing this

[Lasse Koskela]

Hi "Mariano Aaaaa",

(and welcome to the JavaRanch)

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Thanks!

[Mariano Austral]

ok, done!
[ August 02, 2007: Message edited by: Mariano Austral ]