topic Best practices for unit testing of TimerCatchingEvent in Alfresco Archive https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/best-practices-for-unit-testing-of-timercatchingevent/m-p/84852#M57166 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hi all,</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I'm wondering what is the best approach to unit test a process with a TimerCatchingEvent. Let's say this event is scheduled to be a few days in the future, then I certainly don't want to Thread.sleep(veryBigNumber)…. <span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":slightly_smiling_face:">🙂</span> For some background: our tests run with Arquillian inside a JBoss AS 7.1 container, so full JavaEE is available.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>One option would be to just test a slightly different version of the business process, where the timer is set to just 1 second or something. Then we can sleep a while and check if the work is done or not. But this would mean that we need to keep two versions of the process around (potential for errors here).</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>The other thing I had on mind was to modify the job inside the DB manually, so the job executor will pick it up earlier. However I'm not sure how to do this properly… I imagine finding the execution from ACT_RU_EXECUTION, then going to ACT_RU_JOB and modify it directly via SQL. Or could I hijack some (internal) Activiti API for that?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>What are your thoughts? How are you doing this in your tests? <span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":slightly_smiling_face:">🙂</span></SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Regards</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Peter</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 07 Aug 2012 10:13:01 GMT naag 2012-08-07T10:13:01Z Best practices for unit testing of TimerCatchingEvent https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/best-practices-for-unit-testing-of-timercatchingevent/m-p/84852#M57166 Hi all,I'm wondering what is the best approach to unit test a process with a TimerCatchingEvent. Let's say this event is scheduled to be a few days in the future, then I certainly don't want to Thread.sleep(veryBigNumber)…. <span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":slightly_smiling_face:">🙂</span> For some background: our tests run with Arquillian inside a JBoss AS 7.1 Tue, 07 Aug 2012 10:13:01 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/best-practices-for-unit-testing-of-timercatchingevent/m-p/84852#M57166 naag 2012-08-07T10:13:01Z Re: Best practices for unit testing of TimerCatchingEvent https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/best-practices-for-unit-testing-of-timercatchingevent/m-p/84853#M57167 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>DON'T CHANGE THE PROCESS…!!! Use the management service to explicity execute the jobs…</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 07 Aug 2012 10:55:11 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/best-practices-for-unit-testing-of-timercatchingevent/m-p/84853#M57167 ronald_van_kuij 2012-08-07T10:55:11Z Re: Best practices for unit testing of TimerCatchingEvent https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/best-practices-for-unit-testing-of-timercatchingevent/m-p/84854#M57168 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Perfect! I didn't know that the management service would force the execution <img id="smileysurprised" class="emoticon emoticon-smileysurprised" src="https://connect.hyland.com/i/smilies/16x16_smiley-surprised.png" alt="Smiley Surprised" title="Smiley Surprised" />ops:</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Thanks a lot! <span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":slightly_smiling_face:">🙂</span></SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 07 Aug 2012 11:31:26 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/best-practices-for-unit-testing-of-timercatchingevent/m-p/84854#M57168 naag 2012-08-07T11:31:26Z