Run Unit Tests

Chapter 9 Generating Persistent Objects for Java and JSF Pages

Run Unit Tests

There are two ways you can run unit tests generated. One is running Ant task. The other is running them in Eclipse.

Running Unit Tests with Ant

To generate the Ant build.xml file, you need to select the Generate Ant build.xml file in the Java code generation options tab.

To use Ant, you need to:

Download Ant from www.apache.org and install it.
Define an environment variable ANT_HOME and set it to your Ant installation directory.
Download junit-3.8.1.jar if you don't have it.
Copy junit-3.8.1.jar to $ANT_HOME/lib directory.
Make sure that you have defined database connection parameters and JDBC driver jar correctly.

To run unit tests with Ant from PowerDesigner:

Select the Run unit tests task when generating code.

To run unit tests with Ant from the command line:

You can also run the task from command line.

Open a command line window.

Go to the directory where you have generated the code.

Run the JUnit test task by issuing command: Ant junit

Check the output result in ejb3-persistence.log and testout directory.

Running Unit Test in Eclipse

To use Eclipse, you need to download the Eclipse SDK from www.eclipse.org and install it.

If you have selected the Generate Eclipse project artifacts generation option, you can import the generated project into Eclipse and use Eclipse to modify, compile and run the tests.

If you use the PowerDesigner Eclipse plugin, after the code generation, the project is automatically imported or refreshed in Eclipse.

You can run a single test case each time or run them as suite.

To run a single test case:

Open the Java perspective

In the Package Navigator, expand the test package

Select a test case class, for example CustomerTest.java and run it as Unit Test

Select the JUnit view to verify the result:

To run the test suite:

Select AllTests class under test package.

Run it as Application. All the tests will be run as suite.