Tudor Girba wrote:
Hi,
I would like to test the code related to rendering a morphic interface. In particular, I would like to test the rendering of Glamour browsers with morphic.
The problem is that the rendering happens in another process than my regular test code. Any idea of how I could solve this problem?
I'm not sure I understand exactly what you're wanting, but maybe you do some action in your main test code, this causes some rendering to happen in another thread, then after some unknown amount of time that thread finishes rendering and comes to rest, and you want to test whether the final state is what you expect? In that case the real problem is knowing when to expect the final state to be final. One pattern we've used for UI testing is to have a method in the test class waitUntil: conditionBlock You give this method a block that tests the condition and answers true if all is good. The method runs the block every 20ms, using a Delay between to allow the other thread(s) to run. As soon as the condition is true, it returns. If five seconds pass without the condition ever becoming true, it reports a test failure. This lets you test the results of a unit of work in another thread without slowing your tests with worst-case delays. Regards, -Martin