Re: [ws-rx-implement] off-line testing made easy

[Paul Fremantle <paul@wso2.com>]

Doug

How about having multiple configured versions of the same service 
deployed with unique URLs?

Paul

Doug Davis wrote:
>
> For some of the scenarios we're looking at testing during the interop 
> it might be hard for us to test them off-line without some kind of 
> manual involvement.  For example, how is the RMD supposed to know if 
> it should accept or reject the Offered sequence?  I'd really like for 
> us to be able to test all of the scenarios automatically w/o requiring 
> people to manually change some config setting.  Off hand I can think 
> of two options:
> 1 - include some SOAP header that indicates the scenario # and then 
> the RMD/Server can then act accordingly
> 2 - include some "testing directives" in a SOAP header.  Similar to #1 
> but aren't tied to our scenario doc.
> Any other ideas?
>
> I'm partial to #2 then people can try scenarios that may not be 
> included in our scenario doc.  So what do people think of defining a 
> SOAP header (just for our testing purposes only) that include 
> directives like:
>
> <RMDirectives>
>   <acceptOffer> true|false </acceptOffer>
>   <useOfferedSeq> true|false </useOfferedSeq> <!-- even when 
> Offered/Accepted, RMD creates its own seq -->
> </RMDirectives>
>
> Are there other options people can think of passing along?  I'm 
> thinking that these may need to be passed along on every message (and 
> not just the createSeq) so that people have the most flexibility in 
> their implementations.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> thanks,
> -Doug

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