Thoughts of Mahipal

I18n of Junit Testcases

I always believe that Maximum I18n testing should be done before build release to QA. To do that I keep finding out various way to do more and more i18n testing during development.

In that I stuck with this idea of creating Junit testcase for I18n testing. Then I relize it would be good to make Junit testcase itself  I18n. So that input to Junit testcase can be non-english data. It will check the flow of non-english data in application. I have done that for one of module for my product. i.e Portal Server.

Objective

I18n'ed JUnit test case input which will help in doing I18n testing in JUnit.

How to do it?

I18n input of Junit Test case

• What I mean here by I18n'ed test case is to remove hard coded input(which are localizable) from Testcase and load them using ResourceBundle. So to test those testcases with non english value would be easy (creating a new resource bundle with non-english values).

• so from developer point of view , instead of hard coding input to test case in Java program they have to read from resource bundle. Then g11n(or developer) team can create resource bundle for other language and integrate in same framework. It will then run the same testcases with non English values. this way we can reuse junit testcases to perform i18n unit testing.

Example

ex. Let me give you example of one of CMS junit testcase
Testcase to create category.
source : CategoryTest.java
Before :

testCategoryCreation{

String categoryName="TestCategoryCreation";

...(code to test creation) ...

}

In this testcase category name "TestCategory" is hardcoded in java program. I have removed this hardcoding and load this value from Resource Bundle.

Now : CategoryTest.java

One new class variable needs to be added.

ResourceBundle rb;

Two new function will be added:

Locale selectLocale(){
return new Locale("en");
}
void loadResourceBundle(){
rb = ResourceBundle.getBundle("CustomResource",selectLocale()) ;
}
CategoryTest(){
loadResourceBundle();
...
}
testCategoryCreation{
String categoryName=rb.getString("TestCategoryCreation");
...(code to test creation)
... }

As shown above, resource bundle will be load once for Test program and it will be used by all the testcases within it. so now when developer run this testcases in english environment and it will work as it was previously.

Now How to leverage this testcase for I18n testing.
Create one interface: I18nTestFramework - which will have one method
Locale selectLocale();

Base Testcase Program has to implement this Interface.

i.e public CategoryTest extends TestCase implements I18nTestFramework

How to provide Localized value for Testcase

Then we need to create New Test program for language in which you want to do I18n testing which will have only one method selectLocale(). ex. "ja".

CategoryJaTest extends CategoryTest {
Locale selectLocale(){
return new Locale("ja");
}
}

Now on whenever Junit framework will be executed. It will execute this test program also and since locale set to "ja" . Resource bundle for japanese will be loaded. which will be used to test all the tests of CategoryTest since it is extended by CategoryI18nTest.

You can create Category<locale>Test java program , ResourceBundle(properties) file for all the language in which I18n testing needs to be done.

(phir milenge ... (cu later)) 

Posted at 04:06PM Jun 10, 2008 by Mahipalsinh Rana in Personal  |  Comments[1]