Chapter 11. Unit-testing database applications
This chapter covers
Unit-testing in isolation from the database with mock objects
Performing integration tests with Cactus and DbUnit
Improving integration tests’ performances
Dependency is the key problem in software development at all scales.... [E]liminating duplication in programs eliminates dependency. | ||
| --Kent Beck, Test-Driven Development: By Example | ||
For the combined 22 years that we have been writing business applications, we can’t recall a single project that did not use a database of some sort! How do people unit-test code that calls a database? Most of them don’t. Many developers deem the database problem to be too complex and rely solely on functional tests.
Our goal in this chapter is to show ...
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