Grails WebTest Plugin 0.6 Released

The latest version of the Webtest Plugin has been released for Grails 1.0.4. A release for 1.1 will follow shortly, with a newer WebTest snapshot which is now Java 5 dependent.

Release Notes

• setUp/tearDown at the method and class level

  • classSetUp() and classTearDown() are run as individual test cases. SetUp() and tearDown() are run as the first and last steps of each test case.

• Superclass changes in WebTest

  • The WebTest superclass now automatically runs all methods starting with test. This saves you having to manually maintain the suite method unless you really want to for test order reasons.

  • WebTest will also generate the test case name from the class and method name removing the need for repetitive webtest('blah'){...} code. The generated test name also makes it much easir to find the failing test from the generate reports.

  • MethodMissing code has been added so you can refactor a group of steps without having to wrap them in and ant.group closure.

  • You can now call config() as the first step in your test method to set WebTest options like host, port and ajax support

• -nostart option allows you to runthe tests against a server that is already running. It should come after run-webtest on the command line

• System parameters now passed through to WebTest. They need to be placed directly after grails on the command line e.g. grails -Dwt.headless=true run-webtest

  • -Dwt.headless=true to hide Swing monitor and stop browser launching

  • -Dserver.port=XXXX to get the tests to run against a server on a non-default port

• The plugin has been updated with a recent snapshot version of WebTest which includes an update of HtmlUnit to version 2.3

• Application lib folder now on WebTest classpath. This avoids the need to duplicate/move libraries into webtest/home/lib

• Custom steps

  • You can now extend com.canoo.webtest.steps.Step by placing groovy classes in webtest/tests/step. They will be automatically loaded at runtime and allow for easy testing of complicated scenarios such as JSON interfaces and email integration

    • The last project I worked on used these custom steps to start, check then stop an embedded Wiser SMTP server for testing email functionality.

Upgrade Instructions

delete plugins/webtest-0.x

svn delete webtest/home, commit.

This avoids svn issues as the install script deletes the folder and extracts the latest build over the top, removing the .svn directories

grails install-plugin webtest