I have met many developers who refer to tests as “Unit Tests” when they are actually integration tests. In service layers, I’ve seen tests referred to as unit tests, but written with dependencies on the actual service, such as a database, web service, or some message server. Those are part of integration testing. Even if […]Continue reading
In my earlier Integration Testing with Spring and JUnit post, I discussed how to test a service bean facade with JUnit. I also posted a video, titled Testing Spring with JUnit on YouTube. In post, Spring Boot Web Application – Part 3 – Spring Data JPA, I showed how to test a Spring Data JPA […]Continue reading
In this series on unit testing with JUnit, we learned several unit testing aspects and how to implement them with JUnit. We can summarize the series till now as: Part 1: Creating a basic unit test both using Maven and IntelliJ Part 2: Using assertions and annotations Part 3: Using assertThat with Hamcrest matchers In this […]Continue reading
In this series on unit testing with JUnit, we started with JUnit tests both using Maven and IntelliJ in the first part. In the second part, we learned about assertions, JUnit 4 annotations, and test suites. In this post, we will cover assertThat, a more expressive style of assertion that uses Hamcrest matchers. Assertions with […]Continue reading
In the first part of the series on unit testing with JUnit, we looked at creating unit tests both using Maven and IntelliJ. In this post, we will look at some core unit testing concepts and apply those using JUnit constructs. We will learn about assertions, JUnit 4 annotations, and test suites. JUnit Assertions Assertions, […]Continue reading
Unit testing is the first level of testing software where you write test code that executes a specific functionality in the code to be tested. In most cases, you as a programmer are responsible to deliver unit tested code. The objective is to check if the unit of the software, for example a public method […]Continue reading
One of the things I love about the Grails environment is that it comes with a handy bootstrap.groovy file. This will run at startup of the Spring container. I frequently use this to setup expected data, or to create test data for integration / functional tests. It can be a very convenient way to seed […]Continue reading
Testing software has many meanings, which are often confused. In the last decade or so, we’ve seen agile development methodologies go mainstream in the modern enterprise. These methodologies are often misunderstood and misused. Some times they assume you have clean testable code. Often, when dealing with legacy applications, you simply don’t. I’ve encountered legacy Java […]Continue reading
Spring Integration is a very powerful module in the Spring Framework. It was originally inspired by pivotal book in computer science called Enterprise Integration Patterns written by Gregor Hohpe and Bobby Woolf. While the Gang of Four focused their work on software design patterns, Enterprise Integration Patterns is focused on how disparate systems communicate with […]Continue reading
