Testing actors

For the testing of Actors that we create, we might consider few entities that are needed to be present. These entities might be:

• A test actor-system
• A testActor (the message sender)
• The actor under testing (whose behavior we want to test)
• Assertions to be made in case of an actors expected message

Akka's test-kit library provides us with all of these needed entities ready-made. We can use these to test our actors. Let's write a simple actor test case.

The expect case is to check if our GetPlayerInformationRequest works fine:

package lsp 
 
import akka.actor.ActorSystem 
import akka.testkit.{ImplicitSender, TestKit} 
import lsp.SimpleActor.{GetPlayerInformationRequest, PlayerInformationResponse} 
import org.scalatest.{BeforeAndAfterAll, WordSpecLike} 
 
class SimpleActorSpec extends TestKit(ActorSystem("testActorSystem")...