Test Driven Traps, part 2

The Story of a Unit in Unit Tests In the previous part of this article, you could see some bad,…

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Spring Testing Support and Context caching

Spring provides a comprehensive support for unit and integration testing – through annotations to load up a Spring application context,…

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Using PowerMock to Mock Constructors

In my opinion, one of the main benefits of dependency injection is that you can inject mock and/or stub objects…

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5 Tips for Unit Testing Threaded Code

Here’s a few tips on how take make testing your code for logical correctness (as opposed to multi-threaded correctness). I…

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Tips for testing with Java

Introduction I love automated testing. In a rare diversion into op-ed1 I thought a put few thoughts (read – opinions)…

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Spring Integration – Session 2 – More Hello Worlds

This is a follow up to Spring Integration Session 1 The first session was a simple Hello World application using…

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JUnit, Logback, Maven with Spring 3

In this series we have already learnt to set up a basic Spring MVC application and learnt how to handle…

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Categorize tests to reduce build time

Before we progress with the main content of the article, let’s get a few definitions out of the way. Unit…

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Tomcat Context JUnit @Rule

A first draft of a JUnit @Rule that create the test context. This can be used with the Spring context…

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