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GUTs and BUTs
Alright, so it’s a cheap one, but I had to do it. Alistair Cockburn coined the term GUTs – Good Unit Tests in a blog entry. Having a term for it was a bit of an eye opener. I do TDD, but it’s not...
View ArticleClover saving time in development
I read this post about Clover and using it to minimise the number of tests run. A nice idea, so I decided to have a go at it. What it does is use the test-coverage that it was originally written to do,...
View ArticleSetting up testdata with test data builders
Doing TDD has become a way of life for me. One the one hand tests are the security net that lets me refactor my code, but is also a restricting force when it comes to changing code. Experience has...
View ArticleTestNG and Junit 4 compared
IBM DeveloperWorks has a good article comparing TestNG and Junit 4. I havn’t really paid much attention to the issue before, but it seems I should have a look at TestNG. It will probably be a better...
View ArticleQuicker JUnit Spring context tests in Maven
This is probably fairly well known, but I couldn’t find any doc on it when I searched so I’ll put it up here. First off: Don’t load your Spring Context in your tests unless you absolutely have to. Some...
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JUnit and ParameterResolver — Caching database connections in your tests
This is a re-post of an original Medium article. As I am moving my content here I will re-post some content. We aim for fast tests, ideally completing all tests within 30 seconds. Currently, our tests...
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