1. Solr on FitNesse
Learning from Berlin Buzzwords'13
by @dmitrykan

2. What is FitNesse
● The fully integrated standalone wiki and acceptance
testing framework
● Collaboration tool with very low entry
● Test tool: wiki pages are run as tests
● Open source
● Has a number of plugins for: security, dependency
management, ruby/php/python/c/c++/objective
c/.net/coffee script ...

3. Who speaks the Solr language?

4. Main components
● FitNesse Wiki
● FitServer
● Fit: Framework for Integrated Tests
● Slim

7. (almost) Natural Language

8. Fixture code

9. Architecture

10. Solr on FitNesse: health check
public class SolrShardsFixture extends ColumnFixture {
private String shardURL;
private String shardName;
public boolean isShardUp() {
if (shardURL == null || shardURL.isEmpty())
throw new RuntimeException("shardURL url is empty");
try {
SolrServer serverTopic = new CommonsHttpSolrServer(shardURL);
SolrPingResponse solrPingResponse = serverTopic.ping();
if (solrPingResponse.getStatus() == 0)
return true;
} catch (MalformedURLException e) {
throw new RuntimeException("Failed to create SolrServer instance: " + e.getMessage());
} catch (IOException e) {
throw new RuntimeException("Failed to ping the SolrServer instance: " + e.getMessage());
} catch (SolrServerException e) {
throw new RuntimeException(e.getMessage());
}
return false;
}
public void setShardURL(String shardURL) {
this.shardURL = shardURL;
}
public void setShardName(String shardName) {
this.shardName = shardName;
}
}

11. Solr health check

12. Summary
● Very easy to start
● Tests written in (almost) natural language: for
non-technical team members
● Good to combine xUnit with FitNesse
● Applicable for Big Data projects
● Drives project towards TDD

13. Links
● FitNesse: www.fitnesse.org
● Apache Solr: www.lucene.apache.org/solr
● Solr on FitNesse: http://bit.ly/12AxvME
● Some slides from: http://slidesha.re/18NWcc7
● Berlin Buzzwords: http://berlinbuzzwords.de