From: Mohammad Nour El-Din<[email protected]>
Subject: Re: junit viewer success story
To: [email protected]
Date: Thursday, June 30, 2011, 8:09 PM
Perfect why not to write a blog or an
article about it and we publish
it on our site ?
On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 9:31 PM, Kevin Meyer - KMZ<[email protected]>
wrote:
Hi All, (Dan!)
I just wanted to write a short note to say that I have
been using the Isis
junit viewer to write application tests for an
application that I have been
contracted to write.. and I think it works quite
well!
Once I realised I had to (and remembered to) wrap the
appropriate
domain classes (and services), the junit viewer has
helped me confirm
such application domain issues as user rights (only
certain users can
see certain properties, access certain methods, etc),
and general
application usage (if I can't write a straight-forward
"test" to achieve the
required functionality - it's too complicated).
Combined with ecl-emma, I have reasonable confidence
that both the
application and the domain classes are reasonably
exercised!
At some point, though, it seems that I need to look
into ensuring that
life-cycle methods are also included - it seems that
"validate" is not
being called before persistance - but this is not a
blocker if you're
aware of it.
Anyway - it works, and I'm finding it very useful.
A simple test looks like:
public void memberCanNotChangeOwnInitials()
throws Exception {
doLogin("voter@saip");
try {
wrappedLoggedInMember.setInitials("X");
fail("Should have been disabled");
} catch (DisabledException e) {
// this is good!
}
}
Perhaps someone else'll comment on style, but I think
these tests are
quite clear.
Regards,
Kevin
PS: I have also written an authenticator to use a SQL
database. I will
update the authentication, etc, documentation with
HOWTOs shortly.
--
Thanks
- Mohammad Nour
Author of (WebSphere Application Server Community
Edition 2.0 User Guide)
http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg247585.html
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/mnour
- Blog: http://tadabborat.blogspot.com
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