I have had good experience transitioning from junit3 to junit4. The two can coexist as they use different package names and have backward compatibility.
Andrea Aime wrote: > Hi, > today I tried to fix a bug (http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/GEOT-1693) > that required fixing DefaultFeatureResults and co. The issue with this > bug is that one cannot unit test DefaultFeatureResults without > creating a ton or related classes... unless mock testing is used. > > So I gave a spin at EasyMock 2 and... wow! Look at how simple the > test with the mock object is: > > public void testMaxFeatureOptimized() throws Exception { > DefaultQuery q = new DefaultQuery("roads"); > q.setMaxFeatures(10); > > // mock up the feature source so that it'll return a count of 20 > SimpleFeatureType type = DataUtilities.createType("roads", > "_=the_geom:Point,FID:String,NAME:String"); > FeatureSource fs = createMock(FeatureSource.class); > expect(fs.getSchema()).andReturn(type).anyTimes(); > expect(fs.getCount(q)).andReturn(20); > replay(fs); > > DefaultFeatureResults results = new DefaultFeatureResults(fs, q); > assertEquals(10, results.size()); > } > > Basically I create a mock, set a few expectations on the method > calls and their return values, and I'm in business. Lovely. > > Unfortunately this did not last long. I had to make a similar > fix in JDBCFeatureCollection, which needs JDBCFeatureSource, > which in turn is not an interface. And EasyMock + JUnit 3 > does not allow to mock interfaces... Junit4 is required to > do so. > > I looked around, JMock is there, but imho setting up > the mock objects is quite a bit more convoluted. > JUnit4 is apparently supported by both Eclipse and Maven, > yet I'm a little reluctant upgrading due to the extensive > amount of tests made using JUnit 3... we have no complaints > on it and we have a good expertise grown on it... > > Soo... what do people think? Opinions? > Cheers > Andrea > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft > Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. > http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ > _______________________________________________ > Geotools-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-devel > -- Regards, Farrukh Najmi Web: http://www.wellfleetsoftware.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Geotools-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-devel
