Tigase Test Suite

Tigase Test Suite is an engine which allows you to run tests. Essentially it just executes TestCase implementations. The tests may depend on other tests which means they are executed in specific order. For example authentication test is executed after the stream open test which in turn is executed after network socket connection test.

The test suite contains also scripting language which allows you to combine test cases into a test scenarios. On the lowest level, however the language is designed to allow you to describe the test by setting test parameters, test comments, identification and so on.

Let's look at the example test description.

Short name@test-id-1;test-id-2: Short description for the test case
{
 -loop = 10
 -user-name = Frank
 # This is a comment which is ignored
}
>> Long, detailed description of the test case <<

Meaning of all elements:

There is long list of parameters which can be applied to any test case. Here is the description of all possible parameters which can be used to build test scenarios.

Test report configuration

There are test report parameters which must be set in the main script file in order to generate HTML report from the test. These parameters have no effect is they are set inside the test case description.

You can write tests in form of simple text file which is loaded during test suite runtime.

You simply specify what should be send to the server and what response should be expected from the server. No need to write Java code and recompile whole test suite for new tests. It means new test cases can be now written easily and quickly which hopefully means more detailed tests for the server.