JUnit Pass Test Case on Failures

Why create a mechanism to expect a test failure? There comes a time when one would want and expect a…

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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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Test Driven Traps, part 1

Have you ever been in a situation, where a simple change of code, broke a few hundred tests? Have you…

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The crystal ball illusion

I have noticed that people sometimes avoid doing thorough testing. This may sound as bogus to some, but hear me…

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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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Maven Cargo plugin for Integration Testing

A very common need in the lifecycle of a project is setting up integration testing. Luckily, Maven has built-in support…

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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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Help, My Code Isn’t Testable! Do I Need to Fix the Design?

Our code is often untestable because there is no easy way to “sense1” the results in a good way and…

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A Classification of Tests

There are many ways of testing software. This post uses the five Ws to classify the different types of tests…

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