Alexander Jesse

(5380) JSFUnit introduction

Technical long talk 50 min

Tuesday, 2008-06-24, 14:00 - 14:50, Arena 6

Alexander Jesse - Credit Suisse (speaker)

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Abstract

JSFUnit is approaching 1.0 release time. Time to take a look at it.
JSFUnit, which is developed by Stan Silvert and Dennis Byrne from JBoss, has 
some features which set it apart from other testing tools in the JSF universe.
JSF-applications can easily be developed in modules and then be composed during 
the build-step. But in this way some problems can surface which cannot be 
detected in the single modules. For example each module could define a managed 
bean with the name "myBean". The config of each module is in itself 
coherent, but the composite application contains duplicate definitions. For this 
JSFUnit contains some static tests.
The other important JSFUnit feature is its comprehensive greybox-testing. The 
web-application is built and tested in a running container like it is done with 
other webtest-frameworks. JSFUnit allows to assert the internal state of the 
applicaiton and the JSF-infrastructure after the test by providing access to the 
FacesContext.
In this presentation I aim at giving an overview of JSFUnit and its special 
features. The presentation will also outline the current state of JSFUnit and 
the plans of the development team.