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Hamcrest Matchers, Guava Predicate and Builder design pattern
Often, while coding we have to deal with some POJO objects that have dozens of fields in them. Many times we initialize those classes through a constructor having dozens of arguments ...
Running JUnit Tests Repeatedly Without Loops
Recently I came across a problem where I had to write tests for a method that calculates randomly distributed values within a certain range of possibilities 1. More precisely if you ...
Penetration Testing Shouldn’t be a Waste of Time
In a recent post on “Debunking Myths: Penetration Testing is a Waste of Time”, Rohit Sethi looks at some of the disadvantages of the passive and irresponsible way that application ...
JUnit: Naming Individual Test Cases in a Parameterized Test
A couple of years ago I wrote about JUnit Parameterized Tests. One of the things I didn’t like about them was that JUnit named the invidividual test cases using numbers, so if ...
War Games, Pair Testing and Other Fun Ways to Find Bugs
I’ve already examined how important good testing is to the health of a project, a product and an organization. There’s a lot more to good testing than running an automated test ...
Testing Spring Data Neo4j Applications with NoSQLUnit
Spring Data Neo4j is the project within Spring Data project which provides an extension to the Spring programming model for writing applications that uses Neo4j as graph database. To ...
JUnit and EasyMock cooperation
Developers always need to take care about code which they produced. They should be ensured that code works properly after a new feature was implemented or some bug was fixed. That’s ...
Testing Expected Exceptions with JUnit Rules
This post shows how to test for expected exceptions using JUnit. Let’s start with the following class that we wish to test: public ...
Don’t rely on unit tests alone
When you are building a complex system, barely testing components in isolation is not enough. It’s crucial, but not enough. Imagine a car factory that manufactures and imports ...
Synchronising Multithreaded Integration Tests
Testing threads is hard, very hard and this makes writing good integration tests for multithreaded systems under test… hard. This is because in JUnit there’s no built in ...
