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Jakarta Struts Cookbook
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Jakarta Struts Cookbook

by Bill Siggelkow
February 2005
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
528 pages
12h 53m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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13.6. Testing Your Actions with Mock Objects

Problem

You want to unit test your Struts actions without running the application on an application server.

Solution

Use the StrutsTestCase framework to create a unit test, extending the StrutsTestCase MockStrutsTestCase base class, which verifies that your action does what it's supposed to do.

Discussion

The StrutsTestCase framework (http://strutstestcase.sourceforge.net), a JUnit extension, specifically targets the testing of Struts actions. You can download StrutsTestCase from http://strutstestcase.sourceforge.net. If you are coding to the Servlet 2.2 specification, download the binary for 2.2, strutstest212_1.1-2.2.zip; for Servlet 2.3 or later, download strutstest212_1.1-2.3.zip. You should also download the source code for StrutsTestCase; when you need to use a debugger, you can step into the StrutsTestCase code. Unzip the binary and source zip files into a directory.

Copy the strutstest-2.1.2.jar to a location on your application's classpath. Separate your test source code, classes, and libraries from the rest of your application code. You should create a test directory for the application that contains the following:

  • A src folder your test source code

  • A classes folder to compile the test source into

  • A lib folder containing test-specific JAR files such as the StrutsTestCase Jar

When testing, place the test/classes directory and the JAR files in your test/lib directory on your classpath. When you build the actual distribution for your application ...

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