GlassFish Developer Testing

The GlassFish project provides several frameworks for implementing developer-level tests:

• Build-time Tests
• QuickLook
• Devtests

These frameworks (plus a few others) have been used to implement many developer-level tests, as listed in this dashboard.

Build-time Tests

The Junit framework is used to implement tests that are run at compile time. Build-time tests generally perform quick testing of a relatively independent class. These are classical "unit tests".

Any hk2-jar or jar maven module importing hk2 can use dependency injection in the Junit tests.

TBD - need a good example of how to implement build-time tests.

A "mvn install" command runs the build-time tests by default. To skip the build-time tests, the "-Dmaven.test.skip=true" option can be added to the command line.

QuickLook

The QuickLook tests can and should be run after a complete build before checking in any changes. These tests operate on an installation of GlassFish. Instructions for running the QuickLook tests are in the workspace at tests/quicklook/QuickLook_Test_Instructions.html.

Devtests

The Devtests are a more in depth set of tests that are typically run by a hudson job, but they can be run manually as well. These tests exercise more of the system than the QuickLook tests. Here is some information about Devtests:

• Presentations (internal link)
• hudson job (internal link)
• Instructions for implementing admin devtests
• Monitoring devtests
• Debugging devtests

The Devtests are based on an ant and Java framework. Actual tests are written in Java and ant is used to control the running of the tests.