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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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13.8. Testing Application Functionality

Problem

You want to verify that your application, deployed and running on an application server, does what it's supposed to do for a specific use case or scenario.

Solution

Use the JWebUnit acceptance testing framework.

Discussion

JWebUnit, an extension of the JUnit testing framework, leverages JUnit and Http-Unit for web application acceptance testing. JUnit provides the test harness and basic assertion methods, and HttpUnit (http://httpunit.sourceforge.net) provides a mechanism for programmatically sending requests and reading responses from a web application. JWebUnit exercises a running web application by programmatically sending requests, clicking links, filling out and submitting forms, and inspecting the response.

To get started with JWebUnit, download it from the project site, http://jwebunit.sourceforge.net. The source distribution includes everything you need; the JWebUnit Jar file, dependent Jar files, documentation, and the JWebUnit source code. Create a test directory structure in your application's project directory like that shown in Figure 13-10. You will need to copy the Jar files included with JWebUnit to your test/lib directory.

Project structure with "test" directory

Figure 13-10. Project structure with "test" directory

The easiest way to create a new JWebUnit test class is to subclass net.sourceforge.jwebunit.WebTestCase.

Tip

If you have been using your own extension ...

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