Solr on FitNesseLearning from Berlin Buzzwords'13

by @dmitrykan

What is FitNesse

● The fully integrated standalone wiki and acceptance testing framework

● Collaboration tool with very low entry● Test tool: wiki pages are run as tests● Open source● Has a number of plugins for: security, dependency

management, ruby/php/python/c/c++/objective c/.net/coffee script ...

Who speaks the Solr language?

Main components

● FitNesse Wiki● FitServer● Fit: Framework for Integrated Tests● Slim

(almost) Natural Language

Fixture code

Architecture

Solr on FitNesse: health checkpublic class SolrShardsFixture extends ColumnFixture {

private String shardURL; private String shardName;

public boolean isShardUp() { if (shardURL == null || shardURL.isEmpty()) throw new RuntimeException("shardURL url is empty"); try { SolrServer serverTopic = new CommonsHttpSolrServer(shardURL); SolrPingResponse solrPingResponse = serverTopic.ping();

if (solrPingResponse.getStatus() == 0) return true;

} catch (MalformedURLException e) { throw new RuntimeException("Failed to create SolrServer instance: " + e.getMessage()); } catch (IOException e) { throw new RuntimeException("Failed to ping the SolrServer instance: " + e.getMessage()); } catch (SolrServerException e) { throw new RuntimeException(e.getMessage()); } return false; }

public void setShardURL(String shardURL) { this.shardURL = shardURL; }

public void setShardName(String shardName) { this.shardName = shardName; }}

Solr health check

Summary

● Very easy to start● Tests written in (almost) natural language: for

non-technical team members● Good to combine xUnit with FitNesse● Applicable for Big Data projects● Drives project towards TDD

Links

● FitNesse: www.fitnesse.org ● Apache Solr: www.lucene.apache.org/solr ● Solr on FitNesse: http://bit.ly/12AxvME ● Some slides from: http://slidesha.re/18NWcc7● Berlin Buzzwords: http://berlinbuzzwords.de