Re: Using custom servlet for GWT-RPC with GWTTestCase

On Thursday, August 4, 2016 at 9:26:27 PM UTC+2, Kay Pac wrote:

I guess I am confused. I understand the need to do as much testing as possible with regular JUnit/TestNG tests, which I try to do. What I don't understand precisely is where the area of coverage for GWTTestCase is - it's some area between vanilla JUnit and Selenium/Webdriver, but it's clear I don't understand what that area is or how to take advantage of it. I am certain the structure of my code is a problem - I hacked some bits together and embedded a dependency on a spring gwt webservice, which I can't run within the JUnitShell. It makes sense to remove that dependency and supply a mock object.

GWTTestCase is there to test code that needs to run in a "GWT/browser" context: widgets, elements, events, super-source, etc. The <servlet> is used by GWT itself in test FormPanel, RequestBuilder and GWT-RPC, at the "protocol" level (i.e. with servlets designed to trigger specific code paths in client-side code –and server-side code for GWT-RPC– depending on the request).

 

Part of my confusion, I believe, stems from the documentation for the gwt-maven-plugin, which says that it considers the GWTTestCase integration tests and not unit tests.

The gwt-maven-plugin⋅s are independent projects. Mojo's Maven Plugin for GWT categorizes GWTTestCase as integration tests (historically, I believe) mainly because they're slow and involve many moving pieces: they're undoubtedly "bigger" than "unit" tests.

I, for one, treat them more as unit tests, and my Maven Plugin for GWT (net.ltgt.gwt.maven:gwt-maven-plugin) runs them at the "test" phase.

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