How to start the Ivy Server in plain Java?

There are several questions regarding how to access to Ivy environment JUnit tests but there is no elegant solution so far.

In Ivy Designer, if I start the Ivy Server and then start run JUnit tests, the Ivy Server will be automatically stopped. I'm trying to find a way to avoid this (and not sure if there is).

I'm trying to implement a JUnit TestRunner which could start the Ivy Server programmatically but as of now, I don't know the way. What I could found is:

IServer server = ServerFactory.createEclipseEmbeddedTestServer(); server.start(null); <-- stuck here since I don't know how to instantiate IProgressMonitor

My questions are:

Is it possible to configure and run JUnit tests in designer along with the engine?
How can we programmatically start a server?

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asked 02.03.2015 at 11:11

Genzer Hawker
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i'm wondering about reasons why to test anything in Designer. Likely you want to make sure that the solution works for the customer (on a server Engine).

I suppose you already use some Continuous Integration to make sure your tests executed automatically. https://guidelines.axonivy.com/projects/guides/wiki/Continuous_integration

With Ant or Maven scripts you can control when an Engine is started and stopped. In between you may execute any number of (JUnit) Tests.

In case you really want to test the Designer itself, e.g. you write Eclipse plugin to Ivy, then see my private mail with attached Eclipse based Test cases.

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answered 05.03.2015 at 12:10

Tamas KIS
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Hi @Tamas, thanks for the email, I also thought about writing an Eclipse plugin but don't know here to start, your email is definitely helpful. The things is, I want to make sure there is nothing broken before checking in the source code, that's why I want to run the tests on the designer first instead of discovering bugs via the CI system.

(06.03.2015 at 03:00) Genzer Hawker

You can pass a new org.eclipse.core.runtime.NullProgressMonitor() to the mentioned method.

But anyway I also think that Tamas is right. Normally its better to start a real server with e.g. with Maven. The maven script could then be used to test locally or remote on the ci-server. So you really know if the test will run on ci or not as you execute the same logic:

on phase pre-integration-test: start a server, deploy projects (e.g. by calling ant as tamas suggested)
on phase integration-test: execute your junit test e.g. with maven-surefire
on phase post-integration-test: stop the server

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answered 06.03.2015 at 08:48

Reguel Werme... ♦♦
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