Re: frysk.expunit, Expect like functionality within JUnit

[Phil Muldoon <pmuldoon at redhat dot com>]

Andrew Cagney wrote:
> Hello,
>
> The Expect program lets the user interact with a console based 
> program, sending it input and checking its output.  The existing 
> testing framework dejagnu builds on expect.
>
> The package frysk.expunit provides functionality similar to Expect, 
> but in a way that integrates into the JUnit framework.  By doing this, 
> developers:
>
> -> need only learn JUnit, and this extension, and not an entirely new 
> language (tcl/tk) and test framework (dejagnu)

The current expect tests use tcl, so having the expect-like tests in 
Java will be a welcome addition. For fcore, the tests are: create an 
expected fail condition, check that it fails like it should. Here is an 
existing test:


#start test program, and store pid.
set funit_path [findfile "$pwd/frysk/pkglibdir/funit-child" 
"$pwd/frysk/pkglibdir/funit-child" funit-child]
set funit_pid [spawn ${funit_path} 100 0 0]
set funit_sid $spawn_id

#start tester program with valid pid, but wrong -console argument
spawn $fcore_path -console frysk=BADLOG $funit_pid

#test output.
expect {
   -re "fcore: Invalid log console: BADLOG"
   {pass test_fcore_bad_console_log_argument}
   default     {fail test_fcore_bad_console_log_argument}
}

So for the purposes of the above test, the new Java Expect should 
simplfy things nicely. Given the above, would the correct java code be 
something like:

{start up an example java process, using DetachedAckProcess or 
AckDaemonProcess}

e = new Expect (new String[] { "fcore", "-console","frysk=BADLOG",myPid});
e.assertExpect ("fcore: Invalid log console: BADLOG");

I'm not sure how you would find the fcore in the above (in-tree and 
out-of-tree testing), but if the test converts to as simply as above, 
that is great!

Regards

Phil