Re: XSpec and XSL Testing

At Editions Lefebvre Sarrut - France - we have a strong requirement on 
XSLT unit testing. We use XSpec, with xspec-maven-plugin [1], which 
produces JUnit / Surefire test report, that is perfectly integrated in 
CI tools (Jenkins, SonarQube).

All our projects, even XSL-only projects, are maven projects. An 
important point of xspec-maven-plugin is the ability to choose which 
Saxon you use (HE, PE, EE), and, if you have your own build of Saxon 
available in a maven repo, you can use it for XSpec.

We are currently testing XSpec on Schematron, and try to find a solution 
to unit test RNG with XSpec too...

Sandro Cirulli [2] and AirQuick [3] have done a real great job to bring 
XSpec up to XST 3.0 level, and to support correctly XQuery & Schematron 
- there is still some jobs to finalize...

For real specific cases (including xsl:error testing), you use JUnit, as 
XSpec is not able to catch errors. There is some job around this [4], 
but not yet merged into main stream.

At this point, main dev stream is at [5] and builds are available in 
maven at [6]

As far as XProc 3.0 goes, Editions Lefebvre Sarrut have some plans on 
using XSpec for XProc unit testing. It requires a lot of XSpec language 
evolutions, but there is a lot of promises...

XSpec is still alive !

Best regards,
Christophe

[1] - https://github.com/xspec/xspec-maven-plugin-1/
[2] - https://github.com/cirulls
[3] - https://github.com/AirQuick
[4] - https://github.com/Nico-Amplexor/xspec
[5] - https://github.com/xspec/xspec
[6] - http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/io/xspec/

Le 26/07/2019 ` 22:55, Edward Porter edward.porter@xxxxxxx a icrit :
>
> Theres been some renewed interest in the possibility of unit testing 
> in my organization, and some folks have brought up XSpec as a possible 
> avenue towards more robust testing during development. We leverage a 
> fairly large number of Java extensions, our pipeline is all Java, and 
> weve extended Saxon a fair bit as well. For these reasons, I am 
> having a hard time envisioning how to integrate XSpec. We already have 
> quite a large array of regression tests and a good testing team, but 
> the concept of catching regressions during development is appealing.
>
> What are you all doing these days for testing? Are there large scale 
> implementations of XSpec in the wild with complex pipelines? I cant 
> find too many examples on the net. I found a brief discussion of this 
> topic several years ago on this listserv, but I wondered if there were 
> any developments/good experiences since then.
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> -Edward
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