testing

[Lukas Renggli]

> Hi, could you explain me better what are the problem with actions  
> please? Is it hard to test because are html application or is hard  
> to do the assert?

Yes, exactly it is hard to check the resulting html. Of course you  
could parse it and check for specific tags and contents, or you could  
write regular-expressions ...

What is more, the actions in SmallWiki 1 are badly designed, since  
they heavily couple the business logic and the swazoo html  
generation. Sadly it is almost impossible to test the actions wihout  
dealing with request/response ...

SmallWiki 2 takes a different approach to avoid this problem and thus  
the actions (actually these are commands following the design  
patterns book) can be easily tested.

Cheers,
Lukas

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Lukas Renggli
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