Hi all,
one of the things that have been bothering me lately is that test dependency management
in GeoServer is a bit messy:
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Having to declare the basic dependencies every time they are needed to write a test
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Use of different libraries, or ad-hoc code while a library would do
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General lack of uniformity
I started with this PR, that’s centralizing all basic test dependencies in the main pom, giving all modules a basic set of testing tools that everyone can use with no extra effort: -
junit and spring-test
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hamcrest
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xmlunit for xml testing
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jsonpath for json testing
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jsoup for HTML testing
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awaitility for tests that need to wait for asynch processing (rather than doing fixed waits or hand made wait loops)
Once that’s in, I’d like to continue by: -
Removing all Thread.sleep and replace with awaitility, that can poll for a certain condition up to a maximum wait time, but will exit as soon as the condition is met (will go fast on local machines, but wait enough for slow poke github actions)
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Settle on one mock library and migrate existing tests. I’d suggest going for mockito, it is more alive than easymock, and often easier to use.
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Upgrade test libraries to latest (little by little)
Opinions?
Cheers
Andrea
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