Testing your application with Apache DeltaSpike Test-Control¶

About Test-Control¶

Test-Control is not part of Apache OpenWebBeans but a module of Apache DeltaSpike. It is based on another Deltaspike module called CdiCtrl. Test-Control is available in Deltaspike 0.6 and onwards.

CdiCtrl abstracts away all the logic to boot a CDI Container and controls the life cycle of it's Contexts (Request Context, Session Context, etc). This module can be extremely powerful for CDI projects both for tests and during runtime. It's a long time recommendation to use CdiCtrl to write tests with low - medium complexity and we explain how here: Testing with cdiCtrl.

With Test-Control the few steps you had to do on your own are taken cared of for you. In a way Test-Control However Test-Control though it's fairly new and has no support for TestNG at the moment. It may also be insufficient if you need your own custom extension points or have other complex demands.

Adding Deltaspike Test-Control to your project¶

The following are the dependencies you need in your Apache Maven pom.xml file in addition to OWB itself:

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.apache.deltaspike.cdictrl</groupId>
    <artifactId>deltaspike-cdictrl-api</artifactId>
    <version>${deltaspike.version}</version>
    <scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
    <groupId>org.apache.deltaspike.cdictrl</groupId>
    <artifactId>deltaspike-cdictrl-owb</artifactId>
    <version>${deltaspike.version}</version>
    <scope>test</scope>
</dependency>

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.apache.deltaspike.cdictrl</groupId>
    <artifactId>deltaspike-test-control-module-api</artifactId>
    <version>${deltaspike.version}</version>
    <scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
    <groupId>org.apache.deltaspike.cdictrl</groupId>
    <artifactId>deltaspike-test-control-module-impl</artifactId>
    <version>${deltaspike.version}</version>
    <scope>test</scope>
</dependency>

Note that deltaspike-cdictrl-openejb can substitute the deltaspike-cdictrl-owb dependency if you are using TomEE.

Why use Test-Control for your unit tests?¶

Test-Control offers the strong testing capabilities of CdiCtrl but let's you focus on writing the actual tests alone. Test-Control is the new lightweight champion for testing CDI and the required setup is very minimal. The testing flow is intuitive and follows the principles of other test runners.

Examples and Getting started¶

This information can be found here Deltaspike documentation for Test-Control