ANT-Task for FlexUnit for AIR Mobile project in Jenkins - ant

Question

I am building a Mobile application with Flex 4.11.0 and AIR 4.0. My IDE is Flash Builder 4.7. I wrote a lot of unit tests, some of them using AIR features such as File system access.
I am trying to integrate the project into a CI job on jenkins. I have an ANT script doing the following:
Compiling
Packaging for Android
Packaging for iOS
Generating ASDOC
What I want now is to write an ANT-Task to launch my unit tests and generate a report in XML or HTML which can be parsed by Jenkins afterwards.
I have tried the following:
- Followed the tutorial on http://tutorials.digitalprimates.net/flexunit/Unit-16.html and got the example to work. However, this is a Flash project and not an AIR-Project!
- Read the documentation on https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FLEX/FlexUnit+Ant+Task, downloaded and built the FlexUnit code from git#github.com:flexunit/flexunit.git to get the FlexUnit4AIRCIListener.swc
- Read a LOT of information on the internet from all over the place, not finding an answer (I did find some hints, but a lot of the information is outdated or references dead links)
What I have so far is the following:
<taskdef resource="flexUnitTasks.tasks" classpath="${basedir}\libs\flexUnitTasks-4.1.0.jar" />
<target name="test" >
<echo>Testing...</echo>
<echo>==========</echo>
<!-- 1. Compile FlexUnit-Application -->
<mxmlc file="${PROJECT.src}\FlexUnit.mxml" output="FlexUnit.swf" >
<load-config filename="D:\tools\sdk\flex\4.11.0_AIR4.0\frameworks\air-config.xml" append="true" />
<source-path path-element="${PROJECT.src}" />
<source-path path-element="${basedir}\test" />
<library-path dir="${PROJECT.libs}" append="true">
<include name="**/*.swc" />
<include name="**/*.ane" />
</library-path>
<library-path dir="D:\tools\sdk\flex\4.11.0_AIR4.0\frameworks\libs\air" append="true">
<include name="airglobal.swc" />
</library-path>
<compiler.verbose-stacktraces>true</compiler.verbose-stacktraces>
<compiler.headless-server>true</compiler.headless-server>
</mxmlc>
<!-- 2. Run the compiled SWF -->
<flexunit swf="FlexUnit.swf"
player="air"
timeout="180000"
toDir="${OUTPUT.root}\flexUnit"
haltonfailure="false"
verbose="true"
localTrusted="true"
/>
<!-- 3. Generate readable JUnit-style reports -->
<junitreport todir="${OUTPUT.root}\flexUnit">
<fileset dir="${OUTPUT.root}\flexUnit">
<include name="TEST-*.xml" />
</fileset>
<report format="frames" todir="${OUTPUT.root}\flexUnit\html" />
</junitreport>
</target>
Here are the relevant parts of my FlexUnit.mxml-Application:
protected function onCreationComplete(event:FlexEvent):void
{
core = new FlexUnitCore();
core.addListener(new AirCIListener());
core.run(currentRunTestSuite());
}
public function currentRunTestSuite():Array
{
var testsToRun:Array = new Array();
testsToRun.push(test.suites.CLXSatelliteTestSuite);
return testsToRun;
}
Step 1. from the ANT-Task works (at least I get the FlexUnit.swf). However, Launching the SWF in the <flexunit>-Task fails:
VerifyError: Error #1014: Class flash.filesystem::File could not be found.
Console output:
[flexunit] Generating default values ...
[flexunit] Using default working dir [D:\workspaces\flex\projects\clx-satellite]
[flexunit] Using the following settings for the test run:
[flexunit] FLEX_HOME: [D:\tools\sdk\flex\4.11.0_AIR4.0]
[flexunit] haltonfailure: [false]
[flexunit] headless: [false]
[flexunit] display: [99]
[flexunit] localTrusted: [true]
[flexunit] player: [flash]
[flexunit] port: [1024]
[flexunit] swf: [D:\workspaces\flex\projects\clx-satellite\FlexUnit.swf]
[flexunit] timeout: [180000ms]
[flexunit] toDir: [D:\workspaces\flex\projects\clx-satellite\deploy\flexUnit]
[flexunit] Setting up server process ...
[flexunit] Starting server ...
[flexunit] Opening server socket on port [1024].
[flexunit] Waiting for client connection ...
[flexunit] OS: [Windows]
[flexunit] Launching player:
[flexunit] Executing 'rundll32' with arguments:
[flexunit] 'url.dll,FileProtocolHandler'
[flexunit] 'D:\workspaces\flex\projects\clx-satellite\FlexUnit.swf'
[flexunit] The ' characters around the executable and arguments are
[flexunit] not part of the command.
[flexunit] Client connected.
[flexunit] Setting inbound buffer size to [262144] bytes.
[flexunit] Receiving data ...
[flexunit] Sending acknowledgement to player to start sending test data ...
[flexunit]
[flexunit] Stopping server ...
[flexunit] End of test data reached, sending acknowledgement to player ...
BUILD FAILED
D:\workspaces\flex\projects\clx-satellite\build.xml:148:
java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException: could not close client/server socket
When I include a single test which does not use the File-Class, the tests work and I get a similar error (ReferenceError: Error #1065: Variable flash.desktop::NativeApplication is not defined.) but at least the tests run through and I get XML-output. Seems to me like FlexUnit is not really compatible with AIR, although I use player=airin the task.
Does anybody of you have a working example of running Unit Tests with FlexUnit for an AIR Application (possibly a mobile application) through ANT?

Answer 1

Never mind, I figured it out myself and blogged about it in my personal blog:
http://www.tiefenauer.info/ci-for-flex-mobile-applications-part-3-performing-unit-tests/
I described a whole CI process there, just in case anyone has the same problem.

Answer 2

There is Apache FlexUnit feature request for this here: Apache FlexUnit: FLEX-35090
Or you can utilize this feature by compiling your own FlexUnit task by using this fork of FlexUnit 4.1: additionalCompilerOptions branch
The formatting supported with the custom FlexUnit Ant Task is as follows:
<flexunit
workingDir="${bin.loc}"
toDir="${report.loc}"
haltonfailure="false"
verbose="true"
localTrusted="true" >
<!-- only supported with custom FlexUnit Ant tasks -->
<additionalCompilerOption option="-define+=MY_CONST::foo,'BAR'" />
</flexunit>