Extreme Programming - Fitnesse confusion

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Fitnesse confusion

Steve Jorgensen

2005-04-19, 8:56 am

Hi all,

Obviously, from my recent posts, I'm just getting started trying to really
seriously learn the common Java testing tools. Now, I'm on to Fitnesse.

I feel like a bit of a dope because it looks like a lot of work went into
making the documentation clear on how to make Fitness work, but I'm having
trouble getting clear on the steps, and none of my stumbling and
experimentation has worked. It would help if there was a hand-holding
step-by-step example of how to get the first Fitnesse test up and running with
a new project.

Anyway, I was hoping to try to see if I could set up my own java project in
its own directory, and I tried to figure out the steps.

First of all, I created what I think is a subwiki. From what I can tell, the
only thing that actually makes a page a subwiki is that other pages use it as
a namespace. Is that right? Anyway, I created a page called FooSuite, and I
made a class path to where the new project was going to be by adding !path
C:\myjava\foo. Since I was going to copy and paste code from the division
example, I also created a new test page called FooSuite.DivideTest.

Next, on the new test page, I pasted the following example markup (changing
"eg" to "eg2" since that's the package name I intended to use):

|eg2.Division|
|Numerator|Denominator|Quotient?|
|10 |2 |5 |
|12.6 |3 |4.2 |
|100 |4 |33 |

At this point, I expected to see a Test button that would produce an error
when clicked, but no button appeared. I looked around and thought perhaps, I
needed to add a test fixture listing for eg2.Division as a test fixture in
FooSuite, so I tried adding !fixture eg2.division to FooSuite, but still no
luck. Next, I tried creating the actual java code to be called. Still, I
have no Test button to try to run the test with.

What have I missed?

Thanks,

- Steve J.

John Roth

2005-04-19, 3:57 pm

"Steve Jorgensen" <nospam@nospam.nospam> wrote in message
news:u3f961hvsih1bd4e51aosupkkbdq0valr5@
4ax.com...
> Hi all,
>
> Obviously, from my recent posts, I'm just getting started trying to really
> seriously learn the common Java testing tools. Now, I'm on to Fitnesse.
>
> I feel like a bit of a dope because it looks like a lot of work went into
> making the documentation clear on how to make Fitness work, but I'm having
> trouble getting clear on the steps, and none of my stumbling and
> experimentation has worked. It would help if there was a hand-holding
> step-by-step example of how to get the first Fitnesse test up and running
> with
> a new project.
>
> Anyway, I was hoping to try to see if I could set up my own java project
> in
> its own directory, and I tried to figure out the steps.
>
> First of all, I created what I think is a subwiki. From what I can tell,
> the
> only thing that actually makes a page a subwiki is that other pages use it
> as
> a namespace. Is that right? Anyway, I created a page called FooSuite,
> and I
> made a class path to where the new project was going to be by adding !path
> C:\myjava\foo. Since I was going to copy and paste code from the division
> example, I also created a new test page called FooSuite.DivideTest.
>
> Next, on the new test page, I pasted the following example markup
> (changing
> "eg" to "eg2" since that's the package name I intended to use):
>
> |eg2.Division|
> |Numerator|Denominator|Quotient?|
> |10 |2 |5 |
> |12.6 |3 |4.2 |
> |100 |4 |33 |
>
> At this point, I expected to see a Test button that would produce an error
> when clicked, but no button appeared. I looked around and thought
> perhaps, I
> needed to add a test fixture listing for eg2.Division as a test fixture in
> FooSuite, so I tried adding !fixture eg2.division to FooSuite, but still
> no
> luck. Next, I tried creating the actual java code to be called. Still, I
> have no Test button to try to run the test with.
>
> What have I missed?

Press the properties button. You need to add the test property;
it will not guess.

John Roth
>
> Thanks,
>
> - Steve J.

Steve Jorgensen

2005-04-19, 3:57 pm

On Tue, 19 Apr 2005 07:22:01 -0500, "John Roth" <newsgroups@jhrothjr.com>
wrote:

....
>
>Press the properties button. You need to add the test property;
>it will not guess.

Thanks John, that helped. I had been expecting to see any such button while
editing, not while viewing, so I didn't look at those buttons to see what they
were.

So now, I do have a test button, and now I just have to figure out why it says
"Could not find fixture eg2.Division since I did create it, and I have the
classpath set for the suite page.

Steve Jorgensen

2005-04-19, 3:57 pm

On Tue, 19 Apr 2005 07:39:55 -0700, Steve Jorgensen <nospam@nospam.nospam>
wrote:

....
>So now, I do have a test button, and now I just have to figure out why it says
>"Could not find fixture eg2.Division since I did create it, and I have the
>classpath set for the suite page.

OK, I got that one too now. I just hadn't understood where Eclipse was
putting the .class files. Now, I'm on to the next error, but I think I'm
finding my way now. I guess I just needed to understand about the Properties
button.

Robert C. Martin

2005-04-20, 3:58 am

On Tue, 19 Apr 2005 07:53:22 -0700, Steve Jorgensen
<nospam@nospam.nospam> wrote:

>On Tue, 19 Apr 2005 07:39:55 -0700, Steve Jorgensen <nospam@nospam.nospam>
>wrote:
>
>...
>
>OK, I got that one too now. I just hadn't understood where Eclipse was
>putting the .class files. Now, I'm on to the next error, but I think I'm
>finding my way now. I guess I just needed to understand about the Properties
>button.

The best place to get help on FitNesse is the fitnesse yahoogroup.
See: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/fitnesse/

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