Comments on: Giving Infinitest and “Continuous Testing” a try…

By: Alex Ruiz

Alex Ruiz — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 15:14:51 +0000

Hi Martin,

I haven’t tried it yet with FEST-Swing (due to time constraints but it is in my TODO list,) but I can see the scenario you described happening.

Ben suggested to filter out slow tests using a regular expression. I found how to do it here http://improvingworks.com/products/infinitest/infinitest-user-guide/

Cheers,
-Alex

By: Martin Ginkel

Martin Ginkel — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 12:45:11 +0000

I installed infinitest for my project with mixed plain unit and GUI tests.
I removed it immediately.

The GUI tests are executed, while editing unrelated code.
There is no way to configure, that they should be run with redirected GUI (I live and develop on Linux and the
Eclipse RunConfing of the tests usually configures to use a XVnc as the display).

Therefore my current experience is just “disturbed”.

By: Alex Ruiz

Alex Ruiz — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 13:22:58 +0000

Hi Tom,

So far it seems to me that Infinitest runs asynchronously. I haven’t noticed any interruption while I’m typing and tests are running concurrently. What I noticed is that Eclipse gets a little slower, but not to the point of being annoying (I have an old machine to start with.)

Cheers,
-Alex

By: Tom

Tom — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 13:12:37 +0000

Infinitest is certainly very interesing, but I’ve noticed that unit tests only tend to stay lean-and-mean in the beginning of the project. Very quickly mockups are involved and tests are becoming slower (my current project even requires starting in-memory databases). So I’m very curious how the Swing project will go.

Does infinitest run asynchronously?

By: Alex Ruiz

Alex Ruiz — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 15:46:31 +0000

Ben,

I’m actually looking forward to using Infinitest to run functional tests! In my case, at least 90% of the tests are functional (my project is a functional UI testing tool, and IMHO requires more functional tests than unit tests.) One of my goals is to find a “recipe” for running functional tests with Infinitest, instead of excluding them.

I’m looking forward for the upcoming release! :)

Cheers!

By: Ben Rady

Ben Rady — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 15:30:35 +0000

Alex,

A very thorough examination. For just about every one of the issues you highlighted, I thought to myself “Yeah…we’re working on that…”

In particular, regarding issue #2, there are still some cases where Infinitest can’t figure out what to do, and just punts by running all the tests in your workspace. When you delete a class, for example. There are some improvements that can be made in this area, however, so watch for that in an upcoming release.

In regards to larger projects with more functional tests, our recommendation is that you use Infinitest to run Unit (aka fast) tests. There’s a regular expression based filtering mechanism that you can use to exclude slower functional/integration tests. Check the forums on Infinitest.org for more details on that.

I’m glad you’re getting value out of the the tool. Thanks for blogging about it.