Quick Talk on Pax Exam held at Devoxx 2009 in Antwerp, Belgium. Length: 15mins

1. OSGi Testing: Pax Exam
by Toni Menzel
Software Developer at Sonatype

2. Toni Menzel is a contractor at Sonatype Inc.
Author of Pax Exam
Committer to other Pax Projects
Involved into OSGi since 2006
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3. Pax Exam uses the extensive Pax Toolchain for
OSGi to deliver an OSGi Integration Testing
Platform
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4. Agenda
Very fast overview of Pax Toolchain for OSGi
Requirements for OSGi Testing
Pax Exam Test Anatomy
Pax Exam Inside
Gems: TinyBundles
Demos
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5. Pax
Umbrella project for all OSGi efforts at
Pax Web, Pax URL, Pax Swissbox
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6. OSGi (Integration-) Testing
Run our test in a real osgi environment
JVM
Framework
Components
Integrate nicely in any IDE, Maven, Ant etc.
Support existing Test and Mock Frameworks
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7. Anatomy of an Exam Test
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8. More on Configuration
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9. Running more Frameworks
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10. Inside: Before Test
Spawn a new JVM JVM
OSGi
Framework
IDE Launch Framework incl. Configuration
Test Probe
Create and Install Test Probe
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11. Inside: Test execution
Bundle1
Bundle2
Trigger Test via RMI
IDE Exam
Return results
Test Probe
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12. TinyBundles
fluent java library to create bundles (and
more) on the fly
Part of Pax Swissbox
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13. Exam + Tinybundles =
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14. DEMO
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Questions

16. Thanks for your attention!
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