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JtestR woes.

August 7th, 2008

At work, all of our test and behavior driven development is done through the Fit libraries and an application layer called FitNesse. Now these are two tools that really fill a much needed void in the Java development world, however being an avid Ruby supporter I know that is far from the best. I decided to try RSpec and see if it had the chops to replace the dated and lacking Fit library.

It took about a day’s worth of google searching to find the best plan of action. Originally, I wanted to wire up JRuby and RSpec myself, but it seemed to involve too many hoops to be a viable option. Then I ran into JtestR thinking that it would be the end-all solution to my Java testing troubles. I was wrong.

The two days spent trying to get JRuby and JtestR to play nice with my Java project has culminated into an amazingly cryptic stack trace:

[junit] Exception in thread "main" java.lang.RuntimeException: Exception while running
    [junit]     at org.jtestr.JtestRRunner.execute(JtestRRunner.java:97)
    [junit]     at org.jtestr.ant.JtestRSuite.run(JtestRSuite.java:376)
    [junit]     at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.optional.junit.JUnitTestRunner.run(JUnitTestRunner.java:289)
    [junit]     at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.optional.junit.JUnitTestRunner.launch(JUnitTestRunner.java:656)
    [junit]     at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.optional.junit.JUnitTestRunner.main(JUnitTestRunner.java:558)
    [junit] Caused by: org.jruby.exceptions.RaiseException
    [junit] Test org.jtestr.ant.JtestRSuite FAILED

Now begins the adventure of asking JtestR’s lead developer, Ola Bini, for help. It seems he is not entirely sure why this problem is occurring which is not very comforting, when I am pitching RSpec as a test replacement for Fitness in a few weeks. I will keep you posted with updates, feel free to follow the mailing list.

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