Re: [Functional Testing] Two Sessions?

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> On 2 Jul 2009, at 15:42, Robert Fischer wrote:
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>> I'm testing an interactive feature of my app, and I want to use
>> g-func[1] to test it.  This means I need to have two sessions on at
>> the same time, so that when one does something, I can check for a
>> change in the other.  Is there an easy way to do this that I'm missing?
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> Not currently no.
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> Depending on what is a reasonable feature need, there are a couple of
> ways to cut it.
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> For example, I think we would probably be able to swap out the HtmlUnit
> webclient for a new one mid-test, and pull back the other one by name.
> This effectively gives you separate browsers / sessions.
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> Another way would be to pull out pretty much everything from
> FunctionalTestCase into a FunctionTestClient that you can have multiple
> of and the test case class would just manage the "current" one and
> delegate all calls to it.
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> If the interaction you want to test is something like:
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> 1. User A submits a chat message
> 2. User B refresh chat to see user A's message
> 3. User B submits reply chat message
> 4. User A refreshes to see B's message
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> Then I think this is still well within the ethos of G-Func as it is
> nicely linear and the tests remain easy to grok etc.
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> We could implement that quite simply I think, something like:
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> client "User A"
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> get("/messages")
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> client "User B"
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> post('/messages') { .... }
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> client "User A"
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> Eg the client method just switches to a named client.
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> Marc
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