(Unit)Testing Actors

[Javier]

Gents,

Which is the best way to test actors?

Currently, I doing something like the following:

class WorkersManagerTest(Actor, unittest.TestCase):
"""Act as a DirectoryService to see if workers request work."""

subscriptions = [ 'AccessPointRequest' ]

def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
unittest.TestCase.__init__(self, *args, **kwargs)
Actor.__init__(self)

def setUp(self):
mgr.register_actor(self)

self._current_workermanager = None
self._requests = 0

def tearDown(self):
mgr.unregister_actor(self)
if self._current_workermanager:
mgr.unregister_actor(self._current_workermanager)

def handle_AccessPointRequest(self, msg):
self._requests += 1

def test_workers_are_started(self):
max_workers = 10
self._current_workermanager =
log_fetcher.WorkersManager(max_workers,
MockWorker)
mgr.register_actor(self._current_workermanager)

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[John Yang]

Hi Javier:

Have a look at pysage's own unit test:

http://code.google.com/p/pysage/source/browse/trunk/tests/test_system.py

Here's a test module that spawns child processes:

http://code.google.com/p/pysage/source/browse/trunk/tests/test_groups_process.py

Does this help?

John

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[Javier Ruere]

Yep, thanks.

I've fixed the setUp & tearDown methods and will rework the test case
to use separate actors instead of being an actor itself.

Javier