On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 10:09 AM, Fabian Christ <[email protected]> wrote: > ...why not handle all unit tests that access external services as > integration-tests? IMHO these are no unit tests anymore if they access > an external resource. So migrating them to integration-tests would be > solution....
+1, having unit tests that timeout on connections or fail silently because an external service is not there is not good. Maybe we need three types of tests: 1) Unit tests - quick, no external connections 2) Integration tests in offline mode 3) Integration tests in online mode, activated by a Maven profile or -Dproperty -Bertrand
