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Re: [bpel-dev] Re:GSOC project ideas
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Hi Saminda,
Thanks for the idea. It seems a good idea to me. I think what you meant was providing some functionality similar to JUnit for testing BPEL processes. This requires the designer of the BPEL process to be aware of the expected outputs from the process for specific test cases. So this requires on the part of the test case designer, some degree of understanding about the responses returned from partner web services for a particular test case as well, if I'm not mistaken.
A little issue that came up to me was, supposing that we only have WSDLs of respective partner web services, determining the nature of the partner web service reponse for a specific test case scenario can be tricky since we may not know internal logic provided by the service. So for that I think we should have a set of responses collected from the respective partner web service for the expected outmessage to be sent by the process for the provided process test input, beforehand. Then we base our assertions on actual returned web service reponse with pre-collected web service response.
I don't know whether I made myself clear enough on this. But I'm eargerly looking forward to hear about any suggestions, enhancements on this idea or other interesting project ideas.
Best Regards,
Chamith Buddhika
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 12:05 PM, Saminda Wijeratne
<samindaw@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
tough luck Buddhika. Since Nandika has already been working on the idea, I suggest you think of other aspects of a bpel processes. One idea came to me was to automate test cases. Testing manually a bpel process for many scenarios each time there are some modifications to the bpel file is a time consuming and inefficient process. If we could get the plugin to create test cases for bpel process and allow the users to run/automate the test cases using the ode engine it would benefit the developer greatly. Only drawback is that once a bpel is created, normally the process is never changed. So after that there will be no more use for the created test cases. May be we can extend the idea.
Best Regards,
Saminda
buddhika chamith wrote:
Hi all,
Thanks for the idea. But since Nandika seems to be already working on developing debugging support for BPEL designer (he privately informed me of this after the idea came up on the list as well) I think I will have to rule out the possibility of doing this as my GSOC project, though I would have liked to proceed. So any more ideas on areas that can be improved, are greatly appreciated.
Best Regards,
Chamith Buddhika.
