Hello.
I have the similar doubts myself.
I think that converting tests from ones that use Mock objects to
cactus approach is far from trivial, and requires significant effort.
Is there some way to make it easier?


On Wed, 09 Mar 2005 10:00:50 -0400, Dawson Mossman
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> Hi Vincent,
> I am fairly new to Cactus and am trying to understand exactly how it
> should work.
> 
> Our organization wants to perform code logic unit testing and
> integration testing (we'll worry about functional testing later).  For
> our code logic unit testing, we are planning on doing JUnit tests with
> Mock objects.
> 
> This is the strategy I am thinking we could use:
> 1) As we develop individual classes we will write JUnit tests using Mock
> objects to test class methods.
> 2) Then, as we begin to integrate components (classes), we will take the
> existing JUnit Tests, convert them to Cactus tests and use the real
> objects (not the Mocks).  This will give us our "in-container"
> integration tests.
> 
> Does this sound like an appropriate approach?  Should I be doing
> something different?  Our environment will be using Web Services and
> EJB.  Will I be able to perform my code-logic unit tests outside the
> scope of a container, or will these need to be run in the same fashion
> as Cactus tests (ie. in container)?
> 
> Figuring out some of these questions would be great in understanding how
> we can best use Cactus.  Thanks for any help you can provide.
> 
> Dawson
> 
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