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The main difference between these and the unit tests is in the test implemented, not in the infrastructure required, as these tests will use several classes at once to emulate a user action.
Static Analysis
Due to comments in the GSoC meetings, some static analysis tools have been added to the project. The tools are just a complement, a platform like Sonar should be used as it integrates better with the structure of DSpace and we could have the reports linked to Jira.
We have added the following reports:
- FindBugs : static code bug analyser
- PMD and CPD: static analyser and "copy-and-paste" detector
- TagList: finds comments with a certain annotation (like XXX or TODO)
- Testability Explorer: detects issues in classes that difficult the creation of unit tests
They can be generated by launching:
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mvn site
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from the main folder
Functional Tests
These are tests which come from user-based use cases. Such as a user wants to search DSpace to find material and download a pdf. Or something more complex like a user wants to submit their thesis to DSpace and follow it through the approval process. These are stories about how users would preform tasks and cover a wide array of components within Dspace.
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