JUnit recipes : practical methods for programmer testing

752 Pages·2005·14.496 MB·English

by  Rainsberger, Joe B., Stirling, Scott

JUnit Recipes
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JUnit Recipes
Practical Methods for Programmer Testing
J.B. RAINSBERGER
with contributions by SCOTT STIRLING
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brief contents

PART 1 THE BUILDING BLOCKS .......................................1
1 ■ Fundamentals 3
2 ■ Elementary tests 22
3 ■ Organizing and buildingJUnittests 71
4 ■ Managing test suites 102
5 ■ Working with test data 136
6 ■ Running JUnit tests 173
7 ■ Reporting JUnit results 188
8 ■ Troubleshooting JUnit 233
PART 2 TESTING J2EE ................................................. 257
9 ■ Testing and XML 265
10 ■ Testing and JDBC 308
11 ■ Testing Enterprise JavaBeans 370
12 ■ Testing web components 443
13 ■ Testing J2EE applications 508
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PART 3 MORE JUNIT TECHNIQUES ............................ 541
14 ■ Testing design patterns 543
15 ■ GSBase 572
16 ■ JUnit-addons 585
17 ■ Odds and ends 603
APPENDICES ........................................................................ 629
A ■ Complete solutions 629
B ■ Essays on testing 673
C ■ Reading List 696
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contents
foreword xv
preface xvii
acknowledgments xix
about this book xxii
about the cover illustration xxx
PART 1 THE BUILDING BLOCKS ..................................1
1 Fundamentals 3
1.1 What is ProgrammerTesting? 4
1.2 Getting started withJUnit 10
1.3 A few good practices 17
1.4 Summary 20
2 Elementary tests 22
2.1 Test your equals method 26
2.2 Test a method that returns nothing 33
2.3 Test a constructor 37
2.4 Test a getter 41
2.5 Test a setter 44
2.6 Test an interface 48
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2.7 Test a JavaBean 54
2.8 Test throwing the right exception 56
2.9 Let collections compare themselves 61
2.10 Test a big object for equality 63
2.11 Test an object that instantiates other objects 66
3 Organizing and building JUnit tests 71
3.1 Place test classes in the same
packageasproductioncode 74
3.2 Create a separate sourcetreefortestcode 77
3.3 Separate test packages
fromproductioncode packages 79
3.4 Factor out a test fixture 83
3.5 Factor out a test fixture hierarchy 87
3.6 Introduce a Base Test Case 90
3.7 Move special case tests toaseparatetestfixture 92
3.8 Build tests from the command line 94
3.9 Build tests using Ant 96
3.10 Build tests using Eclipse 99
4 Managing test suites 102
4.1 Let JUnit build your test suite 103
4.2 Collect a specific set of tests 107
4.3 Collect all the tests in a package 111
4.4 Collect all the tests for your entire system 114
4.5 Scan the file system for tests 116
4.6 Separate the different kinds of test suites 120
4.7 Control the order of some of your tests 123
4.8 Build a data-driven test suite 127
4.9 Define a test suite in XML 133
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5 Working with test data 136
5.1 Use Java system properties 138
5.2 Use environment variables 142
5.3 Use an inline data file 145
5.4 Use a properties file 147
5.5 Use ResourceBundles 152
5.6 Use a file-based test data repository 154
5.7 Use XML to describe test data 156
5.8 Use Ant’s <sql> task toworkwithadatabase 157
5.9 Use JUnitPP 159
5.10 Set up your fixture once fortheentiresuite 161
5.11 Perform environment setup once
formultiple test runs 164
5.12 Use DbUnit 170
6 Running JUnit tests 173
6.1 See the name of each test asitexecutes 177
6.2 See the name of each test asitexecutes
with a text-based test runner 178
6.3 Execute a single test 180
6.4 Execute each test in its own JVM 181
6.5 Reload classes before each test 182
6.6 Ignore a test 185
7 Reporting JUnit results 188
7.1 Using a Base Test Case with a logger 190
7.2 Using Log4Unit 194
7.3 Getting plain text results with Ant 198
7.4 Reporting results in HTML
withAnt’s<junitreport>task 202
7.5 Customizing <junit> XML reportswithXSLT 205
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