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.…

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Synchronising Multithreaded Integration Tests

Testing threads is hard, very hard and this makes writing good integration tests for multithreaded systems under test… hard. This…

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Running unit tests and integration tests separately with Maven Failsafe and TestNG

Recently for my new pet project I decided that I would like to have some tests executed during standard mvn…

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Hamcrest Containing Matchers

The Hamcrest 1.3 Javadoc documentation for the Matchers class adds more documentation for several of that class’s methods than were…

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Spring Selenium Tests With Annotations

This post describes how to implement Selenium tests in Java. It is inspired from the post by Alex Collins, with…

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The Differences Between Test-First Programming and Test-Driven Development

There seems to be some confusion between Test-First Programming and Test-Driven Development (TDD). This post explains that merely writing the…

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Waiting for the right moment – in integration testing

When you have to test multi-threaded programs, there is always the need to wait until the system arrives at a…

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A Selenium/WebDriver example in Java

A couple of years back, I was pitching for some work and the client wanted to see how I would…

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How cool is integration testing with Spring and Hibernate

I am guilty of not writing integration testing (At least for database related transactions) up until now. So in order…

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