Java® and Flex® Integration Bible

Chapter 7. Using JUnit and FlexUnit to Test Your Applications

IN THIS CHAPTER

• Working with JUnit

• Working with FlexUnit

As you begin to develop an application, you need to make sure that everything within the application is working properly before getting in too deep. For a small project, you can trace some commands to the Output panel and then check the results, but that approach simply doesn't work for larger-scale applications.

In this chapter, you look at unit testing tools for Java and Flex. These tools give you the ability to examine elements of a larger application and ensure that your code is well-built.

Primarily, you look at JUnit for Java and FlexUnit for Flex because they're the standard testing kits for their respective programming languages.

Working with JUnit

JUnit is a unit testing library for Java applications and is written in Java itself. It supports the creation of individual test cases and the grouping of those test cases into a test suite that can run all the unit tests together.

The unit in unit testing is meant to refer to the smallest possible testable piece of code. In the Java world, this typically means a single method in a class. Some methods, such as those whose only function is to set and retrieve properties of a Java bean class (getter and setter methods), are considered too simple to break and are typically not tested. Any method that does more than that should be tested.

Note

For more on Java bean classes and getter and setter methods, see Chapter 9.

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