JUnit in Action, Second Edition

Chapter 15. Testing JSF applications

The first 90% of the code accounts for the first 10% of the development time. The remaining 10% of the code accounts for the other 90% of the development time.

Tom Cargill

This chapter covers

• The problems of testing JSF applications
• Mock solution of the problems
• JSF unit/integration testing using JSFUnit
• JSF performance testing with JSFUnit

The Cactus framework we introduced in chapter 14 is great for testing most of the Java EE specifications. On a daily basis, the majority of Java developers write Java EE applications, all of which are based on the Java EE spec.

In this chapter we take a closer look at the newest member of the Java EE spec—the JavaServer Faces (JSF) technology. It’s a standard specification ...