[hyades-dev] Re: junit and derivatives

[Thomas L Roche <tlroche@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Dominique Guilbaud Wed, 1 Sep 2004 16:25:28 +0200
> The plan is first to investigate the addition
of the follwing
> JUnit-based tools:

> - HTTPUnit: this is for the HTTP protocol-based
test and the idea
> here is to enhence the URL testing tool existing
in Hyades

You might also want to consider HTMLUnit. There are
partisans for each
tool; see much discussion on

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/junit/messages

> - Cactus for J2EE component testing. Nothing
exists in Hyades today
> for this kind of test, This issue I have with
Cactus is the need of
> WebTool project to automate the execution. To
be investigate

> - Abbot for GUI testing. Nothing exists in Hyades
today for this
> kind of test, and I think that Abbot is a good
candidate for this.
> More investigation need to be done

I'd be glad to help, esp as Rational Developer gets
past DCUT. Note
that abbot.swt has recently added GEF support: we
can, e.g., drag nodes
off the palette, connect them, etc.