JSF Backing Bean Unit Testing

[Murat Hazer]

Hi,

I am trying to write unit tests on my backing beans' action, actionListener and other methods, and using shale-test framework to accomplish this. From TDD principles i know every unit test should test only itself not other functions or layers etc., but in my scenario backing beans use spring managed services and these services also use hibernate managed DAOs, and also these backing beans use other request or session based beans. What are the best practices about unit testing backing beans like this?

Should i also use mock objects (like jmock or easymock) for these properties of the backing beans? And what should i do to validate faces-config files? I study appfuse (on backing bean tests exceutes all layer functions..) and examples come with shale, they are not very clear (or my misunderstaning), i think i need a clear and nice sample (also other users) unit test on a such complicated backing bean)

regards...
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Murat HAZER
Elektrik-Elektronik Mühendisi - Electrical-Electronics Engineer