Spring Persistence with Hibernate, Second Edition

© Paul Fisher and Brian D. Murphy 2016

Paul Fisher and Brian D. Murphy, Spring Persistence with Hibernate, 10.1007/978-1-4842-0268-5_7

7. Effective Testing

Paul Fisher¹  and Brian D. Murphy²

(1)Brookyln, New York, USA

(2)Maplewood, New Jersey, USA

Automated testing, and unit testing in particular, is now universally regarded as a best practice for software development. A number of testing frameworks are available. There remains plenty of room to debate the merits of unit testing versus integration testing; whether to mock objects with frameworks like Mockito or to take a more classic approach with basic stubs; when to apply test-driven development (TDD); whether behavior-driven development (BDD) will become commonplace; and so on.

Throughout this book, ...