How to test dynamically generated user task screens

hohhashi

Hello all.

How can I test dynamically generated user tasks and screens by Selenide on Axon Designer？
First, I created a task by the User Task element in my business process.
Next, I tried to get a start link of the task in ivy test project as shown below, but I got task == null.

@IvyWebTest(headless = true)
@IvyTest
public class SampleWebIT {
	@Test
	public void testDynamicCreatedUserTaskPage() {
		TaskQuery query = TaskQuery.create().where().name().isEqual("taskName");
		ITask task = Ivy.wf().getTaskQueryExecutor().getFirstResult(query); // task == null
		String startLink = task.getStartLink();
		open("http://localhost:8081/" + startLink);

Lukas Lieb

Hi @hohhashi

I would not recommend using Ivy API in a IvyWebTest.
You need to understand that a IvyWebTest is a completely different Stack than an IvyTest or an IvyProcessTest

IvyTest and IvyProcessTest's are starting the engine to a specific level completely in the JVM of the running test.
IvyWebTest's however starts a full engine in a different JVM and only communicates via the Browser interface with the engine.

If you use both annotations I assume it will do both, so start a different engine and start an engine to a specific level inside the test JVM, but those have nothing to do with each other.

If you run an IvyWebTest you should only communicate via browser with the engine.
For this, the web-tester dependency includes an EngineUrl helper util to start processes or log in a specific user. It does this by using the DevWorkflowUI.
Currently, there is no simple API to proceed with an existing task, but you can e.g. check the DevWorkflowUI test code.

hohhashi

Thank you, @Lukas Lieb

I understood that the JVM process started in @IvyWebTest is different from the Ivy main process. They can only communicate each other via the browser. I will try implementing the test code using the helper util you introduced.