[Dev] Re: Coding and building?

[Frank Cohen]

Hi William: See my answers below. -Frank



On Feb 15, 2007, at 9:40 AM, William Martinez Pomares wrote:

> Basically, we made it build, but the TNMaster, TNTally and all the  
> other
> migrated jython files to Java presented several problems. From missing
> imports to definition of methods that were returning complex object
> (i.e. hashtables) that are now returning ints (thus, it is not
> compiling). Some parts we commented out to make it build and start
> working on the TestScenario, and we will revisit that part to  
> completely
> fix it and make that migration work.

Yes, it is a testament for how bad of a coder I am! I have some  
atoning to do! :-o


> We also notices that the frame to
> display was replaced by the controller gui class. Is that class  
> going to
> maintain its name as test?

Yes, the new gui for a running TestScenario is in  
com.pushtotest.testmaker.controller.guiTestRunPanel

> By Now, we have an XSD that represents the TestScenario format, and a
> class to parse it and return the actual lists we need, we are now
> creating the class that "runs" the TestScenario.xml.

Great! I'm looking forward to it.

> Here I have a
> couple of questions:
>
> 1. You mention that the console would be "sending" commands to the  
> nodes
> to execute things. I was thinking of letting the Node to run the  
> XML by
> itself, with syncronization from the console. That way, we avoid
> complexity in the protocol by eliminating the need to send the command
> and all the parameters for the node to run an specific test case. We
> just send the XML and then the node has all info it needs. What do you
> think?

Yes, that's good.

> 2. As I mentioned before, to run 223 the script jars are using JVM  
> 6. We
> can either try to get the code and build it using JVM 5 or migrate TM5
> to use JVM 6. We should then, by your suggestion, to embbed JRE 6  
> in the
> TM5 distribution. An installer?

How many days will it take to write a TestMaker installer that works  
on Windows XP, Linux (Redhat and Ubuntu,) and Mac OS X 10.4? If this  
is a week long project then I'm inclined to wait for the TM 5.1 release.

-Frank


>
> William.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Frank Cohen [mailto:FCOHEN at PUSHTOTEST.COM]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2007 12:42 PM
> To: William Martinez Pomares
> Subject: Coding and building?
>
>
> How is the coding going? When will TestMaker build again? -Frank
>
>
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> Frank Cohen, PushToTest, http://www.PushToTest.com, phone 408 374 7426
> TestMaker: The open-source SOA test automation tool
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Frank Cohen, PushToTest, http://www.PushToTest.com, phone 408 374 7426
TestMaker: The open-source SOA test automation tool