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3answers
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Is spying on tested class bad practice?

I am working on a project where class internal calls are usual but the results are many times simple values. Example (not real code): public boolean findError(Set<Thing1> set1, ...
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1answer
54 views

Method visibility for testing partial mocks

I'm currently writing unit tests to test behavior of a method and would like to partially mock the methods calling injected properties. For example: public void doSomething() { int complicatedInt ...
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1answer
140 views

Is it worth writing a unit test for a DTO with the most basic getter/setters? [duplicate]

The advantage is it protects your DTO against future "enhancements" ?
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9answers
472 views

Any tools/suggestions on how to refute code coverage quality argument

Now I know people could consider this question duplicate or asked many times, in which case I would appreciate a link to relevant questions with answer to my question. I have been recently in ...
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1answer
98 views

How do you distinguish your public API interfaces from the interfaces you use for testing/mocking?

Mocking frameworks are useful for creating mock objects that isolate the code under test from its surrounding software environment. Some mocking frameworks cannot mock non-virtual methods, so they ...
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5answers
785 views

Is this pattern bad? [duplicate]

I notice that when I code I often use a pattern that calls a class method and that method will call a number of private functions in the same class to do the work. The private functions do one thing ...
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1answer
206 views

JUnitEE vs JUnit

I know what unit testing is in general and what JUnit is in particular. But here I see that there is a project called JUnitEE which seems to me to be a wrapper over JUnit. So I would like to better ...
5
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1answer
266 views

Is there a modern replacement for a mutation testing tool like Jester for Java?

“Why just think your tests are good when you can know for sure? Sometimes Jester tells me my tests are airtight, but sometimes the changes it finds come as a bolt out of the blue. Highly ...
3
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2answers
198 views

Do I need to learn python first to understand the part 2 of the book Test Driven development?

It seems like Python is used as a coding language for part 2 of Kent Beck's book Test Driven Development. I have read the first part of that book and started appreciating the value of TDD . First part ...
4
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3answers
368 views

How to invoke anonymous functions in testing?

Below is Java code. I need to cover the below function. I searched for many websites, but I still have no ideas. Is there any methods to cover the override anonymous classes? public static void ...
7
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3answers
637 views

Mocking concrete class - Not recommended

I've just read an excerpt of "Growing Object-Oriented Software" book which explains some reasons why mocking concrete class is not recommended. Here some sample code of a unit-test for the ...
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2answers
325 views

How can I test database access methods in Java? [closed]

I want to write a test for a method that accesses a database such as following. public class MyClass{ public String getAddress(Int id){ String query = "Select * from Address where ...
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1answer
548 views

How have Guava unit tests been generated automatically?

Guava has unit test cases automatically generated: Guava has staggering numbers of unit tests: as of July 2012, the guava-tests package includes over 286,000 individual test cases. Most of ...
4
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7answers
574 views

Is mocking for unit testing appropriate in this scenario?

I have written around 20 methods in Java and all of them call some web services. None of these web services are available yet. To carry on with the server side coding, I hard-coded the results that ...
2
votes
2answers
318 views

Which Continuous Integration for Selenium 2 with TestNG

So I have a Selenium Automation project (using Maven). I'd like to be able to set my tests to run overnight and possibly email a report daily to the team. Which CI would be most suitable for ...

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