Avoiding Test Driven Development

Avoiding Test-Driven Development?

Ryan LaRue Dev Methodologies, Testing Leave a Comment

Throughout time, there have been certain questions that will always result in great battles. In one recent throw down, I drew my line in the sand and bravely asserted, “Hell no, a hotdog is not a sandwich!”

There are other more dangerous questions that we’ve all heard, of course… is Mac better than PC? Is Android better than iPhone? Are dogs better than cats? That last question is the silliest of all as the correct answer is so very obvious. Regardless, these intriguing questions have often led to disastrous consequences such as sulking and hurt feelings.

Allow me to add another one to the list: Is Test-Driven Development (TDD) a good practice?

I know, provocative. In this blog, I will discuss test-driven development, why many in our field seem to hate it, and why you should choose to still implement some of its main concepts in your development….

Getting Started with Marble Testing

Todd Leininger Testing, Tutorial Leave a Comment

When working with RxJS observables, it can get a little tricky to unit test. Sometimes it can be hard to get insight into what is going on with the observable in the test. I’ve personally been frustrated numerous times by trying to test my observables with the subscribe and assert method. This is where marble testing can make testing observables easier.

The main advantage of using marble testing is the marble diagrams. With the diagrams, we have a visual representation of our observables and subscriptions so we can see the interactions between the two. Once the basics are understood, you should be able to get observable tests running in no time.

In this post, I will show you how to get started using Marble testing with an example. By the end, you should have enough information to get started on your journey testing observables. My examples are based on an Angular application using Jasmine, but these can also be applied to different testing frameworks for React and other applications.

Spring Batch Testing & Mocking Revisited with Spring Boot

Jonny Hackett Development Technologies, Java, Spring, Spring Batch, Spring Boot, Testing 3 Comments

Several years ago, 2012 to be precise, I wrote an article on an approach to unit testing Spring Batch Jobs. My editors tell me that I still get new readers of the post every day, so it is time to revisit and update the approach to a more modern standard.

The approach used in the original post was purely testing the individual pieces containing any business logic. Back then, we didn’t have some of the mocking capabilities that we have today, so I went with an approach that made sense at the time.

However, there have been a few improvements in the past several years. One of those improvements has been the ability to Mock beans within a Spring Context. That’s where the @MockBean annotation comes to the rescue.

Hello Micronaut

Rik Scarborough Java, Microservices, Testing Leave a Comment

From some of my previous posts, you can get the idea that I promote the idea of developing maintainable code rapidly. So I was pretty excited when I learned that the same group that was responsible for Grails was working on a similar project for Web Services. Hello, Micronaut.

In this post, I provide an introduction to the Micronaut framework and its features to provide a foundation for you to try it out yourself.

Unit Testing Your Architecture With ArchUnit

Cindy Turpin Architecture, Development Technologies, Testing 1 Comment

I am a Spring/Java developer (primarily) and an advocate of unit testing.

There is often a debate over what constitutes a unit test, an integration test, a system test, etc. But, most of us agree that tests keep you from going “off the rails” once a project becomes sufficiently complex.

However, I have found very few discussions on architectural tests. What keeps us from deviating wildly unintentionally from our original, planned architecture? And, after all, how many enterprise projects even keep the same architects from the beginning of the initiative to shelving and replacement?

In this blog, I introduce ArchUnit, a Java architecture test library for specifying and asserting architecture rules in plain Java. We’ll discuss how it works to mitigate architectural risks in developing quality enterprise applications…