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[Webical-developers] Junit 4?

[Ivo v. D. <ivo...@gm...>]

Hi,

I was reading a bit and it seems that junit 4 has some nice improvements
which could really speed up our tests. They make use of an @BeforeClass and
@AfterClass now in which you can do one time initialization/tear down. This
would be great for our database/synchronization tests where not only the
database is setup and filled for every test, but an entire webdav server is
setup. Doing this once per class would probably save a lot of time which
means we can run the tests more often without getting tired of waiting...
Any thoughts?

Regards,
Ivo

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Re: [Webical-developers] Junit 4?

[Martin T. <m....@fu...>]

Ivo van Dongen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I was reading a bit and it seems that junit 4 has some nice improvements 
> which could really speed up our tests. They make use of an @BeforeClass 
> and @AfterClass now in which you can do one time initialization/tear 
> down. This would be great for our database/synchronization tests where 
> not only the database is setup and filled for every test, but an entire 
> webdav server is setup. Doing this once per class would probably save a 
> lot of time which means we can run the tests more often without getting 
> tired of waiting... Any thoughts?

I've seen a pressentation on J-Fall where they used JUnit 4 exactly for 
that purpose. (The initialization of the application took 2 minutes)

But I have some doubts when reading you need a database for testing your 
units. (If the application gets better... go go go)

Regards,

Martin

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Martin Tilma
Func. Internet Integration
W http://www.func.nl
T +31 20 4230000
F +31 20 4223500

Re: [Webical-developers] Junit 4?

[Ivo v. D. <ivo...@gm...>]

I agree that it has nothing to do with unit testing anymore, but it is
however the place where most bugs creep in. Mostly related with Hibernate
misuse I admit :), but also the synchronization between webdav and the
database is a place where a lot can go wrong (and has in the past). But I
thought I give it a go, couldn't hurt. I was wondering about the surefire
support though, I read some posts that it does support junit 4, but with
some quirks, Eclipse seems to support it just fine.

Ivo

On 10/15/07, Martin Tilma <m....@fu...> wrote:
>
> Ivo van Dongen wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I was reading a bit and it seems that junit 4 has some nice improvements
> > which could really speed up our tests. They make use of an @BeforeClass
> > and @AfterClass now in which you can do one time initialization/tear
> > down. This would be great for our database/synchronization tests where
> > not only the database is setup and filled for every test, but an entire
> > webdav server is setup. Doing this once per class would probably save a
> > lot of time which means we can run the tests more often without getting
> > tired of waiting... Any thoughts?
>
> I've seen a pressentation on J-Fall where they used JUnit 4 exactly for
> that purpose. (The initialization of the application took 2 minutes)
>
> But I have some doubts when reading you need a database for testing your
> units. (If the application gets better... go go go)
>
> Regards,
>
> Martin
>
> --
> Martin Tilma
> Func. Internet Integration
> W http://www.func.nl
> T +31 20 4230000
> F +31 20 4223500
>
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Ivo van Dongen
Func. Internet Integration
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T +31 20 4230000
F +31 20 4223500