Episode 62
Previous episode was about talking to database in Spring. Today we will continue exploring basics of building web applications, and talk about unit testing. This time, however, we are going to leave Spring alone for a moment and focus on plain unit tests using JUnit, Mockito and DataProvider.
As usual, all the code presented in this article is available on my GitHub in the same project as before. This tag corresponds to project state at the time of writing this article. Let’s start with some basic ideas, and why write unit tests in the first place.
Client does not pay for unit tests
Well, I have heard that once. I was in a project where code coverage was around 2%, and when I was actively trying to improve upon that, manager took me to a one on one discussion to a small room. Starting to cover old projects with tests is often difficult, but in the end the business pays much more for not having decent automatic test harness than saving on skipping it and only producing features. It simply pays back in the long run. There are less unnoticed bugs, design is cleaner, the amount of tedious repetitive work is dramatically reduced. Often it is much faster to Read the rest of this entry »
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