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• Notes

  • 07/05/2012 - 11/05/2012:
    • download Jenkins and get familiar with it.
    • how to ask Jenkins to start one OFBIZ instance
    • install the Gradle plug-in for Jenkins
    • write a build.gradle file to grasp all dependencies.
    • write one test case(test to pass) of log-in page
    • setup project repository using Github
    • Difficulties:
      1. Configure jenkin to start on a different port compared to that of the OFBiz
      2. Connect local repository and remote repository
  • 14/05/2012 - 15/05/2012:
    • Refine Gradle build script
    • Jar the project
    • Configure jenkin to start an instance of OFBiz and run the test via the jar
    • Difficulties:
      1. decide which approach is easy to maintain and extend: go by page(one page contain many test cases) or go by case(one case cover a single scenario). The first approach requires a few huge classes. The second approach requires great pool of tiny classes, yet easy to distribute cases.
  • 16/05/2012 - 17/05/2012:
    • Decide to move on with the second approach which is implementing one test case as an individual file.
    • Come up with first draft XML template of test case:
      • Header (Title, description of test case)
      • Input (describe what page is tested, what page needs to fill in before reaching the desired page, and the input for each field)
      • Output (describe what is expected, with/without error, content of error message(if any), or one event(pop up of one dialog))
    • Difficulties:
      1. So many variables to control, perhaps try to come up with one template first, then refine it time after time.
      2. Answer the question: It is fine if user enter test case via Java code, but how does he/she do it if go for XML approach ? Or I would tackle the Java case first, then slowly change it to XML.
      3. Let say if there is huge number of test cases, how to effectively manage them ? Yes, by assigning each test case/class to proper package, but still it is discrete.

• Others

  • Project source code can be checked out at : git@github.com:luvinhthinh/OFBIZ_FT.git
  • How to start up an OFBiz instance with Jenkins:
    1. Start up the Jenkins
    2. Create a new free-style job, give it any name you'd like: OFBIZ_FT
    3. Under the Build, click 'Add Build Step', select 'Invoke Ant'
    4. Click 'Advance', enter Targets as 'run-install run' and Build File as "'The location you store the OFBIZ'/build.xml"
    5. Click Save