Frans Thamura wrote:
hi there,
i just have several question around unit testing for our project, cimande
and we have lack of skill to to unit testing for our core (cimande), and our
apps on cimande (postila, papaje, takatu, etc).
anyone can share?
how to start a good unit testing for Struts2 based application, so our code
is good
F
Hi Frans,
In my opinion, the biggest contributor to "good unit testing" is to
first setup a continuous build system. The earlier in a project that you
do this the better as the inertia against this grows. Among other
benefits, it helps prevent tests from going stale (written once and then
subsequently ignored). Unfortunately it doesn't prevent developers from
commenting out tests they don't understand or accidentally broke; that
discipline can only be learned it seems.
The best examples of unit testing with struts2 are within the struts2
source itself. The other frameworks you use will also include good
examples of how to mock up the test environment.
I don't recommend testing for testing sake. Start small on the important
code to develop some good practices. The value of test-driven
development becomes evident as projects become massive. Eventually it's
less effort and more productive to convince yourself that something
works via a unit test rather than to run a build and deploy cycle. I
think that developers only appreciate that after experiencing "oops, I'm
glad I tested that first" for themselves.
cheers,
Jeromy Evans
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