Automated testing for the Java homework

A small automated test suite for the Java homework is available. (during or after downloading, change the file extension from .zip to .jar)

To run the test suite, type the following at a command prompt:

java -jar homework-test.jar

Options

By default, the test suite interacts with Don's reference implementation of the homework, as deployed in GlassFish on the gf server, using a test student named "Waldo" and an invalid grade of "bogus". You can change these parameters by changing the following JVM properties on the command line:

-Dhost	the value should be the service's base URL, NOT including the context root. For example, -Dhost=http://localhost:8080 [default: http://glassfish.students.franklin.edu:4301]
-DcontextRoot	the value should be the service's context root. For example, -DcontextRoot=joe [default: don]
-Dstudent	the value should be the student name to be used in testing. For example, -Dstudent=Barney [default: Waldo]
-Dbogus	the value should be the invalid grade string used in the bogus-grade test. For example, -Dgrade=whatever [default: bogus]

More information

• The test suite uses Jersey's "Uniform Interface" to web resources, which is a very promising library for calling web services.
• The Client and WebResource classes should be easily adaptable to other situations in which you need to call RESTful web services.
• As always, you are free to re-use any of the source code that is included in the test suite jar file.

Example - running the test with default parameters

Example - running the test with several custom parameters