Well we all have been writing the classic JUnit tests from
years now but it becomes challenging to write test cases when you dealing with
framework like ATG.
So here comes ATG DUST - A framework for writing JUnit tests
for applications built on the ATG Dynamo platform.
Its indeed makes our life lot simpler by providing some
amazing features. The highlight of this framework is that it allows one to
quickly write test classes that depends on Nucleus or ATG Repositories. By
using ATG DUST one can drastically cut down on development time. It takes only
a few seconds to start up a test with a repository, not like application server
which takes good time to start up.
To get started go straight to first test page
. This page will walk you through the process of running a basic test which
starts Nucleus.
This tutorial walks you through the steps of writing a test
which does not need to run in an application server. This is one of the underlying
benefits of writing unit tests.
The test does not depend upon starting up an application
server so turnaround time is also very quick.
Visit out-of-the-box-component-testing page which gives you
a feel of simple test class. Try to open the java source (StartWithModulesTest.java)
file attached there to get a fair idea how easy to use ATG DUST.
The best part I liked about ATG DUST is having the ability
to load any specific ATG module and write a quick Repository test class. Go to
the repository test page for a simple example.
The
repository is started up against an in-memory Hypersonic Database.
DUST also support Formhandler test features with the help
of utility (ServletTestUtils) class which can create a dummy Dynamo
Request/Response pair.
Some of the key classes to look at –
atg.adapter.gsa.GSATest - A basic GSA test which has several
utility methods.
atg.test.util.DBUtils
- Utility code for getting a connection to a database. The most common
method is getHSQLDBInMemoryDBConnection.
atg.test.util.FileUtil
- A collection of utility methods for dealing with the file system.
atg.nucleus.NucleusTestUtils - This class contains some
utility methods to make it faster to write a unit test that needs to resolve components
against Nucleus.
Note on ATG version support – ATG DUST was developed using
9.0 but it work on most ATG versions back to 7.2 . I used ATG DUST version
1.2.2
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