I encountered a defect arising from a Freemarker template, fixed it, and then wanted a better way of testing it than firing up the app and checking the effects visually in a browser. Ignoring for a minute whether or not…
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Loading Resources In Tests
Some level of tests, let’s call it integration testing because it’s not technically unit testing, often need to load resources like XML samples from the file system. A talented developer I worked with recently, came up with this nice use…
Great Expectations
What’s the best way to handle expected exceptions in JUnit? If you want to inspect the contents of the exception and make assertions against it then there is only one clean way; Use the ExpectedException JUnit Rule. I’ve seen it…
JodaTime and JUnit
JUnit Rules are powerful things. There are all sorts of things you can do with a Rule that makes test code cleaner and less error-prone. Because a Rule wraps the test method, it’s really useful for things that need both…
