Lift in Action

Chapter 14. Application testing

 

This chapter covers

• Using Scala testing frameworks
• Writing testable code
• Using Lift’s TestKit

 

Testing is an important part of the modern application development lifecycle, and testing web applications comes with its own unique problems. This chapter deals with testing as an independent entity, away from the main development of an application. Broadly speaking, you should really write tests iteratively, while you’re developing an application, to ensure that all the great new features you’re adding don’t break any of the existing functionality. With that being said, testing is covered here in one homogeneous block, so be sure to take what you learn in this chapter and apply it within each iteration of your ...