Testing modules and components

In the previous chapter when we installed WID, we also installed the WebSphere test environment that provided an embedded version of WebSphere Process Server to enable the developers quickly test their applications. With WID, you can test your modules by performing either unit testing or component testing. In unit testing, you choose the components and interfaces that contain the operations that you want to test, then you test the operations one at a time in the integration test client.

For deployment, WID allows you to specify a particular WPS, and with a single action, applications can be published to the server and started in preparation for testing. If updates are made to an application, the changes can also be scheduled to be published to a server for testing. Applications can also be exported from IBM WebSphere Integration Developer and be installed using the administrative console or the wsadmin command line interface, which we will cover in detail in...