▼Running a Signature Test With the JavaTest Harness

Although the SignatureTest command can be run by itself, SignatureTest can also be executed as a test by the JavaTest harness. This section describes the items that must be in place in a test suite to perform the signature test with the JavaTest harness. If you are developing an API, it is advisable to provide a signature test along with any behavioral tests you develope for that API. For information on how to create a test suite see the JavaTest Architect's Guide available at:

http://java.sun.com/javame/reference/apis.jsp#javatest

Also see Appendix A for an example of running the SignatureTest command from the command line without the JavaTest harness.

The following procedure describes how to add the signature test to your test suite for use with the JavaTest harness.

1.Create the .sig file as described in “Setup Command” on page 14.

2.Create the following directory in your test suite and copy your .sig file to it: test_suite-path/tests/api/signaturetest

Where test_suite-pathis the path to the base directory of the test suite installation.

3.Use the jar utility to extract the classes from sigtest.jar into the /classes directory of your test suite, for example:

%cd test_suite-path/tests/api/signaturetest/classes

%jar -xvf path/sigtest.jar

The sigtest.jar file contains the classes necessary to run the signature test under the control of the JavaTest harness during a test run. You use the sigtestdev.jar only for signature test development purposes.

4.Depending on which test description file you use, copy one of the test description files provided in the SigTest tool distribution to the tests/ directory in your test suite.

The test description files are located in the following directory of the SigTest tool installation along with the other sample signature test files:

SigTest-Directory/examples/sampleTCK/tck/tests/api/sigtest/

Open these files now in your favorite text editor to review their contents.

If you use the tag-based test description file, copy SignatureTest.java to the following location, but if you use the HTML test description file, copy SignatureTest.html to this location instead:

testsuite-path/tests/api/signaturetest/

Where testsuite-pathis the path to the base of the test suite installation.

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