As most of you will know, every now and then you can expect the question ‘Can you help fix something on this ancient project?’ According to the Universal Software Ageing table, that means anything from last month to much, much older. I got such a question recently, being in-between projects, and this project fell squarely into […]
The Spock Framework
In one of my current projects, I started to play around with Groovy and was fascinated how groovy this language is. I got more curious about the way to perform testing and started googling around a little bit. My google research showed me several frameworks to test groovy applications. One of these frameworks is the […]
Reporting bugs for Dummies with Google Drive forms
There are bugs in every application. Even more so for applications that are in development, there is no question about it. If it is a given that bugs are present then the question is how do we find those bugs? A simple answer is: look hard and look frequently. The harder you look, the more […]
Properly testing Spring MVC controllers
In this post I want to introduce you to the Spring MVC testing framework, a way to properly test your Spring MVC controllers.
Simulating a bad network for testing
In a development environment, and often in the test and QA environments as well, we are thankfully blessed with a network that is for all intents and purposes infinitely fast, infinitely reliable and not shared with anyone else. Sometimes this causes you to miss a bug that only becomes apparent once your application has been […]
Easier mocking with Mockito
If you have been happily using Easymock for the past years, this blog post is for you. Because you need to upgrade to Mockito, the new kid on the block in the mocking universe. Why bother about what mocking framework you’re using to create your unittests? Because it will improve you tests, make them more […]
Automated functional testing with WebDriver
There is nothing nicer than having a functional test suite that checks if your application is still working as it should. It is even nicer to run these tests and see what is happening, while the tests are being executed. Two of the tools that give you this opportunity are Selenium RC and WebDriver. In […]
Performance testing a Flex BlazeDS application
In the past few years I’ve seen an increasing interest in Flex applications at our customers. I have to say that I’m not surprised about this trend. Not only do Flex applications generally look great, but they also provide a big boost to user experience. As a developer and architect I am also quite pleased […]
Testing with factories
On July 1st, Jelmer added a very useful blog post about testing the database layer in which he suggested to use “insert statement” and “fixture” classes to provide a good way to insert test data into your database. I am also using that technique as I’m writing unit tests for the database layer. I have […]
Testing the database layer
The database is an integral part of many applications and writing queries is often hard. For that reason I have always written integration tests for the data access objects or DAO’s that I use to access the database. The way I write my DAO tests has changed a lot over the years and in this […]