OSGi Testing

Question

Currently, I am working on a new version control system as part of a final year project at University. The idea is to make it highly adaptable and pluggable.

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Answer 1

There are many ways to test OSGi components, I suppose. One way of doing the testing is to use Robot Framework. What I've done is made my tests with Robot Framework and have the remote libraries either installed in OSGi or have them talk to OSGi-test components through sockets and robot would talk to these modules and run tests through them.

So, basically your OSGi-modules should have interfaces that do something and produce some output. So, in my setup I had a test components that would make service calls to the actual OSGi-component and then there would be a listening-service that would catch the events/service calls (made by the module under test) and those results could be asked by the robot. So basically this way you can split a massive system in small components and have the system run in production/production like enviroment and have it tested automatically on component level or have some of the real components be tested in unison.