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
Unit tests should be small tests (atomic), lightweight, and fast. However, an object under test might have dependencies on other objects. It might need to interact with a database, communicate with a mail server, or talk to a web service or a message queue. All these services might not be available during unit testing. Even […]Continue reading
One of the things I wish to do on this blog is to show you realistic examples of using the Spring Framework in Enterprise Application Development. The Spring Framework is very popular for building large scale applications. When you build an e-commerce website that might have 50,000 users on it at any given time the […]Continue reading
