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Matt Raible

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Matt Raible is a J2EE Consultant in Denver, Colorado.
How do you unit test your Velocity pages? Posted: Nov 10, 2004 10:52 AM
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I've started working with an additional client this morning and one of my first tasks is to figure out the best solution for 1) unit testing the UI and 2) unit testing Velocity templates. It's funny how the blogosphere makes life so much easier. Today was my first meeting with the client and they wanted to know if there was a way to test Velocity templates. Yesterday, I saw a headline in NetNewsWire about unit testing Velocity. I glossed over it b/c I didn't have any use for it. When they mentioned it today - I remembered it, searched on java.blogs and found JUnit Testing Velocity. Folks might think that reading blogs leads to reduced productivity - but I think it leads to more efficient productivity.

I think I'm going to implement something using the JUnit/Velocity stuff above and jWebUnit. jWebUnit will be used to test the WebWork actions and their interaction with the Velocity templates. Anyone had experience (good or bad) using this approach on their projects? Any other alternatives you've used to ensure error-free Velocity pages?

I like jWebUnit because you can easily switch locales and test against ResourceBundle keys for i18n. I don't think this is possible with Canoo's WebTest. The nice thing about Canoo's WebTest is they're migrating to HtmlUnit (rather than HttpUnit), which supposedly has a lot better JavaScript support. Both jWebUnit and WebTest currently use the Rhino js.jar - which throws exceptions for perfectly good JavaScript code.

BTW, anyone know why searching for "appfuse" on JavaBlogs causes a 500 error?

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