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<td class="tablehead" colspan="2"><p class="label">Testing Metacat</p></td>
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<div class="header1">Table of Contents</div>
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<div class="toc1"><a href="#Intro">About Metacat Testing</a></div>
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<div class="toc2"><a href="#Overview">Overview</a></div>
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<div class="toc2"><a href="#MetacatImplementation">JUnit Implementation in Metacat</a></div>
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<div class="toc1"><a href="#WritingTestCase">Writing a Test Case</a></div>
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<div class="toc2"><a href="#Basics">Basics</a></div>
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<div class="toc2"><a href="#MCTestCase">MCTestCase Base Class</a></div>
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<div class="toc2"><a href="#BestPractices">Best Practices</a></div>
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<div class="toc1"><a href="#RunTests">Running Test Cases</a></div>
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<div class="toc2"><a href="#AntTask">Ant task</a></div>
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<div class="toc2"><a href="#ConfigureMetacat">Configure Metacat For Testing</a></div>
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<div class="toc2"><a href="#RunAllTests">Run All Tests</a></div>
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<div class="toc2"><a href="#RunOneTest">Run One Test</a></div>
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<div class="toc2"><a href="#ViewingOutput">Viewing Test Output</a></div>
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<a name="Intro"></a><div class="header1">About Metacat Testing</div>
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<a name="Overview"></a><div class="header2">Overview</div>
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<p>Metacat uses JUnit tests to test its core functionality. These tests are
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good for testing the internal workings of an application, but don't test the
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layout and appearance. JUnit tests are meant to be one tool in the developer's
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test arsinal. If you are not familiar with JUnit, you should search out some
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tutorial documentation online. One such tutorial is at
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<a href="http://clarkware.com/articles/JUnitPrimer.html"> The Clarkware JUnit primer</a></p>
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<p>Metacat test cases will need to be run on the same server as the Metacat
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instance that you want to test. Since Metacat and its test cases share the same
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configuration files, there is no way to run the tests remotely.</p>
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<a name="MetacatImplementation"></a><div class="header2">JUnit Implementation in Metacat</div>
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<p>Metacat test cases are located in the code at:
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<div class="code"><workspace>/metacat/test/edu/ucsb/nceas/metacat*/</div>
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There you will find several java files that define JUnit tests.</p>
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<p> Test cases are run via an ant task, and output from the tests appears in
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a build directory. More on this to follow.</p>
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<a name="WritingTestCase"></a><div class="header1">Writing a Test Case</div>
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<a name="Basics"></a><div class="header2">Basics</div>
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<p>All you need to do to get your JUnit test included into the Metacat test
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suite is to create it in one of the <workspace>/test/edu/ucsb/nceas/metacat*/
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<li>public <Constructor>(String name) - The constructor for the test class. </li>
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<li>public void setUp() - Set up any dependencies for the tests. This is run before each test case.</li>
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<li>public void tearDown() - Release an resources used by the test.</li>
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<li>public static Test suite() - define the test methods that need to be run.</li>
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methods and variables. Some of these include:
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<li>SUCCESS/FALURE - boolean variables holding the values for success and failure. </li>
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<li>metacatUrl, username, password - connection variables used for LDAP connectivity</li>
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<li>readDocumentIdWhichEqualsDoc() - method to read a document from Metacat server.</li>
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extend the MCTestCase class.</li>
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methods and the size of each test. If a test method starts to get huge, you might see
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if you can break it down into mulitple tests based on functionality. If the number of
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tests in the test suite starts to get large, you might see if it makes sense to
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separate them out into different test classes.</li>
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<li>Use assertion message - Most assertion methods have an alternate implementation that
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display debug output as opposed to System.err.println(). The test configuration will
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<p>As we discussed earlier, the test cases run from within ant tasks. There is a
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task to run all tests and a task to run individual tests. </p>
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<p>You will need to have ant installed on your system. For downloads and instructions,
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visit the <a href="http://ant.apache.org/">Apache Ant site</a>.
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<p>The test cases will look at the server's metacat properties file for configuration,
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<li>test.metacatUrl - the url for the metacat servlet (i.e. http://localhost:8080/knb/metacat)</li>
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<li>test.contextUrl - the url for the metacat web service (i.e. http://localhost:8080/knb)</li>
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<li>test.metacatDeployDir - the directory where metacat is physically deployed (i.e. /usr/local/tomcat/webapps/knb)</li>
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<li>test.mcUser - the first metacat test user ("uid=kepler,o=unaffiliated,dc=ecoinformatics,dc=org" should be fine)</li>
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<li>test.mcPassword - the first metacat test password ("kepler" should be fine)</li>
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group in ldap. ("uid=test,o=NCEAS,dc=ecoinformatics,dc=org" should be fine)</li>
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<li>test.mcAnotherPassword - the second metacat test password ("test" should be fine)</li>
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<li>test.piscoUser - the pisco test user ("uid=piscotest,o=PISCO,dc=ecoinformatics,dc=org" should be fine)</li>
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<li>test.piscoPassword - the pisco test password ("testPW" should be fine)</li>
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<li>test.lterUser - the lter test user ("uid=tmonkey,o=LTER,dc=ecoinformatics,dc=org" should be fine)</li>
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<li>test.lterPassword - the lter test password ("T3$tusr" should be fine)</li>
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the access tests since some document modifications will succeed when we expect them to fail.</p>
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changing these properties does nothing to change the way the Metacat server runs. Rebuilding
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You will see a line to standard output summarizing each test result.
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<test_name> is the name of the JUnit test class. These output files will have
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