How to start Grails as a web app when runnning integration tests

[splix]

I'm trying to test my grails app using integration test that makes http requests. Actually it's a selenium/tellurium test, but it doesn't matter. But as i see when i running grails tests it doesn't starts web container, the same time i see many examples in blog articles that people tests grails app using selenium and other test tools that requires http access.

I've create an empty grails app:

mvn org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-archetype-plugin:2.0-alpha-4:generate -DarchetypeGroupId=org.grails -DarchetypeArtifactId=grails-maven-archetype -DarchetypeVersion=1.3.4 -DgroupId=example -DartifactId=testportapp

cd testportapp/

mvn initialize

mvn grails:test-app

Tests PASSED - view reports in target/test-reports
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] BUILD SUCCESSFUL

thats ok.

and now add an integration test that tries to connect to grails test/integration/ListenPortTest.groovy:

class ListenPortTest extends GroovyTestCase {
        void testPort(){
                def s = new Socket("localhost", 8080);
                s.close()
        }        
}

and run test again. Now we receive following exception:

Connection refused
   java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused
   ....

I've checked it also by using browser, wget and netstat, and looks like grails not started or not opened any port.


And the question: How i can configure grails to open an port when executing integration tests?

Asked also on stackoverflow: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3...egration-tests

[pledbrook]

Integration tests don't run in a servlet container. You need to install a functional test plugin, like "selenium-rc" and run: grails test-app functional:

Hope that helps.