Tutorials and resources on how to apply unit testing in software testing
In this blog post, Martin Sikora shares his experience of performing Python unit tests on the Google App Engine (GAE). You can test such application locally in terminal, locally on GAE test server or on a real GAE production server hosted on Google infrastructure. To achieve this objective, he used nose, a tool that extends Python’s unittest to make testing easier, with NoseGAE, a nose plugin that makes it easier to write functional and unit tests for Google App Engine applications. The blog post provides the code to run the tests on a GAE server.
Best practices for unit testing are that you should only write for each test a single assertion. In this article intends, Jonathan Allen tries to demonstrate that unit tests with multiple assertions are both necessary and beneficial.
Breaking concepts down into logical chunks, tackling them in isolation. Sound familiar? This is how we write tests, but it’s also how a mathematician writes proofs. Exploring the similarities and differences between the two can bring us back to our profession’s mathematical roots.
In this blog post, Mark Prichard presents a solution on how to use Jenkins to give a “QA dashboard” view of a native Android application build. His goals were to show metrics for the results of unit test and code coverage in an Android build context on the Jenkins continuous integration system.
In this article, Andrew Hunter shares his opinion that unit tests and test driven development (TDD) now dominate the types of test that are used in software development. This situation has limited the attention available for other software testing types, such as the integration tests. Thus he asks the question: “Are unit tests overused?“
This article by Lasse Koskela, provides several tips on how to improve the speed of your Java unit tests. The strategy to improve the speed up test code is to find slow things and either make them run faster or not run them at all.
In this blog post, Nicolas Frankel explains how to perform unit testing on a database using DBUnit, Spring and TestNG. DbUnit is a JUnit extension for database-driven projects that, among other things, puts your database into a known state between test runs. This is an excellent tool to avoid the issues that can occur when one test case corrupts the database and causes subsequent tests to fail. DbUnit has also the ability to export and import your database data to and from XML datasets.
