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"))
with ImplicitSender with WordSpecLike with BeforeAndAfterAll {
override def afterAll(): Unit = super.afterAll()
val players = List(Player("Cristiano...
