Download FitNesseForDataFlex
My recommendation is to use Git or Mercurial and clone the repo from https://bitbucket.org/olaeld/fitnessefordataflex
This will ensure that you also get the required subrepo, DataFlexPatterns.
For Mercurial, this is how to do it: First install TortoiseHg, then go to C:\Projects. Right-click, select TortoiseHg, and Clone… In Source, you enter https://bitbucket.org/olaeld/fitnessefordataflex and select “Clone”.
The alternative is to select Download Repository from the Downloads section of these repos. (You will need to manually download both repos, unzip them, and place them in appropriate folders.)
Compile the FitNesseRunner
In this example, we place the project in C:\Projects\FitNesseforDataFlex.
In DataFlex Studio, open the workspace “FitNesse Example Workspace\FitNesse Example.sws”
I prefer to use precompilation, to reduce compile time. If you want to do the same, open the file FitNesseRunnerPrecompile.pkg in Studio, select Project -> Precompile -> Precompile Package <FitNesseRunnerPrecompile.pkg>.
Now compile the project itself, and upon running it, you should get the following message:
“No workspace has been specified. Start the program from FitNesse. Check the docs for further info.”
Now, close this message, and if a security warning appears, tell the Windows Firewall that it’s ok for fitnesserunner.exe to communicate on the network.
The program should now look like this:
But we haven’t started the FitNesse framework itself, so for the time being we will close this program.
Install FitNesse
From Fitnesse.org, you can download fitnesse-standalone.jar. This is a Java executable, so the Java run-time needs to be installed. The file goes into the FitNesse folder, i..e C:\Projects\fitnessefordataflex\FitNesse.
Finally, before you can run fitnesse-standalone.jar, you need to “unblock” it.
Run FitNesse
Run the batch file C:\Projects\fitnessefordataflex\FitNesse\StartFitnesse.bat
This will run fitnesse-standalone.jar, with the parameter -p 8081, instructing FitNesse to use port 8081. The first time you run FitNesse, it will create the folder FitNesseRoot, which is where the contents for the wiki is located, and where your tests will be located.
You can point the browser to http://localhost:8081 to see that FitNesse is running.
But before you are ready to go, you need to tell FitNesse to use the FitNesseForDataFlex integration.
Setting up FitNesse to use FitNesseForDataFlex
Close the command line window that is running FitNesse.
Copy the contents of the folder “copy contents to FitNesseRoot after it has been created” to FitNesseRoot, and choose to overwrite existing files.
Run StartFitNesse.bat again, and point your browser to http://localhost:8081.
You will now see that there is a link to DataFlexTests.
Also, if you click on the root link at the bottom of the page, you will find that certain settings have been set:
These settings tell FitNesse to use the Slim protocol, which exe file to run (TEST_RUNNER = FitNesseRunner.exe), which workspace the program should use (COMMAND_PATTERN), and finally the “classpath”, which is the class name prefix for the FitNesse fixture classes that will mediate between FitNesse and your production code.
Running your first test
Open the DataFlexTests page, and go to Division Test.
Now, select the Test link at the top of the page. If all goes well, the FitNesseRunner will execute this test, exercising a DataFlex class called cFitnesseDivision, and calling the Quotient function with the parameters numerator and denominator given in the tables.
You will see that the tests go green on the FitNesse web page.
Congratulations, you have successfully installed and run FitNesseForDataFlex.
Now it’s time to test your own software!
Ola Eldøy 