problem with ant, junit, NetBeans, Java, or me

[Charles Bradley]

I see you have forums for ant, junit, and NetBeans. Rather than crosspost, I'll start here. I have a Java project underway, 15 classes so far, developed in NetBeans. About 12 have been thoroughly tested by junit tests constructed from skeletons provided by NetBeans. Now instructor says use ant to make the package to turn in. Just take this and make a few obvious tweaks. After some tweaking, I still can not get the tests to run. Error messages indicate that all the test programs are found. I think the problem lies in the line that begins <jvmarg in the following fragment from the supplied file, but I don't know what it is supposed to mean.

  
   <target name="test" description="Compile and run junit tests" depends="compile">
        <junit failureproperty="test.failure" printsummary="yes" haltonfailure="false" showoutput="true">
            <jvmarg id="PROPERTIES_FILE_PATH" value="=/Users/sam/Desktop/spell/config/configuration.properties" />
           <classpath refid="project.classpath"/>
            <formatter type="xml"/>

            <batchtest fork="yes" todir="${report.dir}">
                <fileset dir="${test.dir}">
                    <include name="**/*Test*.java"/>
                </fileset>
            </batchtest>
        </junit>
        <junitreport todir="${report.dir}">
            <fileset dir="${report.dir}">
                <include name="*.xml"/>
            </fileset>
            <report format="frames" todir="${report.dir}${file.separator}html"/>
        </junitreport>
        <fail message="one or more tests failed." if="test.failure"/>
    </target>
  

A pointer to the correct forum, or even an explanation would be great. Thanks.

[David Newton]

It might make sense to include what's actually happening.

[Charles Bradley]

Here is the ant output, cut off after two of the tests.

   
C:\UML\UML90301\proj1>ant
Buildfile: build.xml

clean:
   [delete] Deleting directory C:\UML\UML90301\proj1\build
   [delete] Deleting directory C:\UML\UML90301\proj1\report

init:
    [mkdir] Created dir: C:\UML\UML90301\proj1\build
    [mkdir] Created dir: C:\UML\UML90301\proj1\report

compile:
    [javac] Compiling 15 source files to C:\UML\UML90301\proj1\build
    [javac] Note: Some input files use unchecked or unsafe operations.
    [javac] Note: Recompile with -Xlint:unchecked for details.

test:
    [junit] java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: =/Users/sam/Desktop/spell/config/con
figuration/properties
    [junit] Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: =.Users.sam.Desktop.spe
ll.config.configuration.properties
    [junit]     at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:200)
    [junit]     at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
    [junit]     at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:188)
    [junit]     at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:307)
    [junit]     at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:301)

    [junit]     at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:252)
    [junit]     at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(ClassLoader.java:320)

    [junit] Could not find the main class: =/Users/sam/Desktop/spell/config/conf
iguration.properties.  Program will exit.
    [junit] Exception in thread "main"
    [junit] Running proj1.AllDrillsTest
    [junit] Tests run: 1, Failures: 0, Errors: 1, Time elapsed: 0 sec
    [junit] Test proj1.AllDrillsTest FAILED (crashed)
    [junit] java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: =/Users/sam/Desktop/spell/config/con
figuration/properties
    [junit] Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: =.Users.sam.Desktop.spe
ll.config.configuration.properties
    [junit]     at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:200)
    [junit]     at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
    [junit]     at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:188)
    [junit]     at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:307)
    [junit]     at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:301)

    [junit]     at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:252)
    [junit]     at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(ClassLoader.java:320)

    [junit] Could not find the main class: =/Users/sam/Desktop/spell/config/conf
iguration.properties.  Program will exit.
    [junit] Exception in thread "main"
    [junit] Running proj1.AllItemsTest
    [junit] Tests run: 1, Failures: 0, Errors: 1, Time elapsed: 0 sec
    [junit] Test proj1.AllItemsTest FAILED (crashed)
   

... for about a dozen more, then

    
[junitreport] Processing C:\UML\UML90301\proj1\report\TESTS-TestSuites.xml to C:
\DOCUME~1\me\LOCALS~1\Temp\null2042558183
[junitreport] Loading stylesheet jar:file:/C:/Java/ant171/lib/ant-junit.jar!/org
/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/optional/junit/xsl/junit-frames.xsl
[junitreport] Transform time: 797ms
[junitreport] Deleting: C:\DOCUME~1\me\LOCALS~1\Temp\null2042558183

BUILD FAILED
C:\UML\UML90301\proj1\build.xml:59: one or more tests failed.

Total time: 5 seconds
C:\UML\UML90301\proj1>

This file is unknown to me:
.Users.sam.Desktop.spell.config.configuration.properties
If I knew what it was supposed to contain, I probably could figure out a place to put that content.
Thanks.

[David Newton]

It's probably supposed to contain JVM arguments--if you don't need any JVM args then you may not need the file at all.

http://ant.apache.org/manual/OptionalTasks/junit.html#nested

[Charles Bradley]

Commenting out the mysterious line allowed the tests to run. Thanks.

Now I'll take a detour to find out why the idea of "write once, run anywhere" is compatible with the JVM having arguments, and then I can go back to finding out why the test results from the ant script do not match the results when I run the test from within NetBeans. This is not a request for help; I might be back, but I need to do some research first. Thanks again.

[Campbell Ritchie]

Too difficult a question for "beginning". Moving.