Short on Time? Switch to Groovy for Unit Testing

If you are a programming today, you have most likely heard of Unit Testing or of the Test-Driven Development process.…

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Writing Clean Tests – Small Is Beautiful

We have learned that “clean” unit tests might not be as clean as we think. We have done our best…

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Writing Clean Tests – Trouble in Paradise

If our code has obvious faults, we are very motivated to improve it. However, at some point we decide that…

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Testing Interface Invariants

Today’s article is something a little special. It’s the first article where I use code from my current personal project…

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Nifty JUnit : Using Rule on Method and Class level

As shown in a the post Nifty JUnit : Working with temporary files, it is possible to use @Rule in…

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Using junit for something else

junit != unit test Junit is the Java unit testing framework. We use it for unit testing usually, but many…

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Refactoring to Allow Test Doubles

Sometimes, when you make a class, it directly instantiates an object to use in its methods. For example:    …

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Unit Test, System Test, Red Test, Green Test

We tend to categorize different types of tests according to what they cover. Unit tests cover small portions of code,…

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Stress testing the OIM web (UI) layer

The default configuration in Oracle IDM reserves 20 threads dedicated for serving front end (UI) requests. This basically means that…

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