We are planning to use XMLSocket server in our own fUnit testing framework to integrate our framework with Ant.

One main advantage of our own fUnit testing framework is support of mock testing of Business Delegates.

Great to see that we are thinking in the the same way :)

Peter,

This is great. This is a problem I've been considering for a while, but now that I've knuckled down to solve it, a quick search finds that you've solved it for me.

The only improvement I could see is that the ant task fail the build on a flex unit test failure/error. I'll look into how I would implement that and perhaps I could share it with you.

Hi,

try to use flexunit but got an error during compile time.

Error: Type was not found or was not a compile-time constant: Timer

Thanks in advance.

Sorry, it's ok now...take the last package version.

Thanks

For those trying to run this on the final Flex 2.0 version:
In the build.xml, you need to prep-end the path of the SWF to with ${basedir}. Otherwise the server socket will start to listen but the SWF will never actually start. This will leave your script idling without any errors being reported.
I would add this line to beginning of the FlexUnitLauncher.runTests method:

if(!new File(swf).exists()) {
throw new FileNotFoundException("Could not locate: "+swf);
}

In order to get this running on the final version of Flex 2, I had to make some additional changes.

1) As noted above, edited build.xml to add the attribute basedir="." to the root node and modified the swf attribute for the flexunit task to be swf="${basedir}/bin/AntTestRunner.swf"

2) Replaced the flexunit.swc file in the example download with the latest flexunit.swc file available from adobe labs http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/ActionScript_3:resources:apis:libraries#FlexUnit

3) Changed the windows files association for .swf files from flash player 8 to flash player 9.

Then it worked great. Peter, thanks for the example project. It was exactly what I was looking for.

The following points should help users to get the tests and reports running with Flex Builder 2.0.1:

1. Download and import both the FlexUnitExample and FlexAntTasks projects into Flex Builder.
2. When editing the build.properties file, use the Eclipse Text Editor and not the Build Properties Editor.
3. Ignore the step regarding the local trusted sandbox. The sandbox settings seem to be updated automatically by Flex Builder.
4. Copy the FlexAntTask.jar from the dist directory of the FlexAntTasks project into the lib directory of your Ant distribution.
5. Edit the build.xml file of the FlexUnitExample project and make the following changes:
- Change the haltonfailure attribute of the flexunit task to false.
- Uncomment the junitreport task.

Hi,
How would I know from FlexUnitExamle what assertion line gives a failure?

Hi there,

Well just to answerd the last post's question, if you navigate through this

FlexUnitExample\report\html\index.html

you will notice that you can click on the left side to check the assertions from your classes.

Anyways, just to clarify, the files that you have to download are FlexAntTasks-src.zip(be careful, there is also a FlexAntTasks.zip that can not be imported in FlexBuilder) and FlexUnitExample.zip. FYI. you can find the newest version, here:

http://weblogs.macromedia.com/pmartin/archives/2007/01/flexunit_for_an_1.cfm

Hi

I have written build.xml to checkout the code from CVS.so its working fine.but the problem is ,in CVS my project "customs"is under "framework" folder.Like framework/customs.so when i checkout the code i am getting entire folder structure,i.e framework/customs.so,i want only "customs" to be checkout.

Thanks
Radhika.P

Hi Peter,

When I run flexunit tests with the Ant task, it seems that on Windows the standalone player SAFlashPlayer.exe is launched. However, this is only available as part of Flex Builder (I couldn't find a download for just the standalone Flash Player).

Can you confirm that Flex Builder is required to run tests with the flexunit Ant task?

Thanks,
Manish

It seems there's no way to detect if errors were thrown by any unit tests? Looking through the source there's handling of errors for the log report rendering, but not for the test report or "exporting" properties back to Ant for conditional processing. That seems odd?

Hi Peter,

Do you have a view on this issue? FlexUnit ant task will fail the build if there is a failure, but not if there is an error. Do you think it should?

Cheers,
Manish

Hi Peter,

I have been using the flexunit ant tasks and I have encountered a problem:----->>>>>>>>> [flexunit] opened server socket
[flexunit] Exception in thread "Thread-37" timeout waiting for flexunit report
[flexunit] at com.adobe.ac.ant.tasks.FlexUnitTask$1.run(Unknown Source)
[flexunit] Caused by: java.net.SocketTimeoutException: Accept timed out
[flexunit] at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.socketAccept(Native Method)
[flexunit] at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.accept(PlainSocketImpl.java:384)
[flexunit] at java.net.ServerSocket.implAccept(ServerSocket.java:450)
[flexunit] at java.net.ServerSocket.accept(ServerSocket.java:421)
[flexunit] at com.adobe.ac.ant.tasks.FlexUnitTask$1.openClientSocket(Unknown Source)
[flexunit] ... 1 more
[flexunit] --- Nested Exception ---
[flexunit] java.net.SocketTimeoutException: Accept timed out
[flexunit] at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.socketAccept(Native Method)
[flexunit] at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.accept(PlainSocketImpl.java:384)
[flexunit] at java.net.ServerSocket.implAccept(ServerSocket.java:450)
[flexunit] at java.net.ServerSocket.accept(ServerSocket.java:421)
[flexunit] at com.adobe.ac.ant.tasks.FlexUnitTask$1.openClientSocket(Unknown Source)
[flexunit] at com.adobe.ac.ant.tasks.FlexUnitTask$1.run(Unknown Source) Can you please tell me why this happens and how I can deal with it. Many thanks and have a great new Year, Avier

Hi,

I cant find the FlexUnitExample.cfg file in the sample zip file... has it been removed?

Actually Im getting this error now when I try to run the AntTestRunner.mxml app:

Error #2044: Unhandled IOErrorEvent:. text=Error #2031: Socket Error.
at flexunit.junit::JUnitTestRunner/::sendResults()
at flexunit.junit::JUnitTestRunner/endTest()
at flexunit.framework::TestResult/endTest()
at flexunit.framework::TestResult/::doFinish()
at flexunit.framework::TestResult/::doContinue()
at flexunit.framework::TestResult/::doRun()
at flexunit.framework::TestResult/run()
at flexunit.framework::TestCase/runWithResult()
at flexunit.framework::TestSuite/::runTest()
at flexunit.framework::TestSuite/runNext()
at flexunit.framework::TestSuiteTestListener/handleTimer()
at flash.utils::Timer/flash.utils:Timer::_timerDispatch()
at flash.utils::Timer/flash.utils:Timer::tick()

Any ideas on how to resolve this?

I cannot find the FlexUnitExample.cfg file anywhere. Can anyone point me to it?

What license will FlexAntTask use?

I'm having a problem running this. I got as far as the test runner runs the tests, but it never closes or generates the report. The last thing ant reports is: [flexunit] opened server socket.

I was expecting, but never got something like:
[flexunit] accepting data from client
[flexunit] sent policy file
[flexunit] accepting data from client

I also never found a .cfg file in the project. So, I'm wondering if this is a security issue.

Any suggestions on how to get this to work from here?

As you say you should expect to see "sent policy file", etc. However, you shouldn't need a .cfg file as the server-socket send providing the policy as runtime.

The only time you will need a .cfg file is if your tests are making their own network requests e.g. I have seen tests that try and load an XML file.

From what you are saying though the task is launching the SWF and you see your tests executing OK? Have you changed the ports at all in your Ant file or test runner?

Hi Peter,
I've downloaded the FlexUnitExample and FlexAntTasks-bin.zip, which contained FlexAntTasks.jar.
I'm not sure where to put the jar, in ant's lib directory or FlexUnitExample's directory.

I've downloaded the latest ant dist (apache-ant-1.7.1).
I've downloaded the latest JDK jdk1.6.0_07 as the ant build complained about not finding tools.jar and I have Flex Builder 3.

The ant output goes as far as "opened server socket" and then a long pause. Let me know what is wrong?:
Buildfile: build.xml

compile:
[exec] Loading configuration file C:\Program Files\Adobe\Flex Builder 3\sdks\3.0.0\frameworks\flex-config.xml
[exec] C:\data\Projects\FlexUnitExample/bin/AntTestRunner.swf (161025 bytes)

test:
[flexunit] opened server socket

With regards of where to put the JAR that is up to you. You can put it in the Ant lib folder. Personally I prefer to put it under my project, I like to have everything baselined in the source code repository. I then reference in my build script as follows:

It is difficult to say what is wrong. As we can see form the logs the server socket has been opened and it is waiting for a client connection / the test report. Do you see the SWF being launched?