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Should mocks used in unit tests represent entireties or subsets?
I was working on a unit test that has a mock object looking something like:
public class TestMock
{
static {
Doodad a = new Doodad(0);
Doodad b = new Doodad(1);
Doodad c = ...
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Java: Splitting a large unit test class
The project (Java/Spring) I currently work on has a rather large unit-test class for one of its services : more than 1000 lines, several Nested class (one per big functionality), some tests without a ...
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Should methods with business logic be made private? [duplicate]
So I am writing a project using Spring Boot. All of my logic resides in @Service classes. I have separated each service class based on entity. For example - If I have two independent entities A and B, ...
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Design Java Testing class for hierarchical objects
Consider the following POJO structure in my main code. I want to create some testing framework for this kind of hierarchical classes, where the calling test method can specify if they want to modify a ...
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What are the drawbacks of modeling (unit) test fixtures in JSON instead of using ObjectFactories?
When writing java tests for an application, be they unit tests or testing a broader scope, the java community tends to model fixtures in terms of object factories that produce fixtures of a defined ...
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Better To Call In Dive Into Submethods Or Pass Around a result
I have a service that does fairly complicated business logic when it receives a request. I have most the functionality isolated into private methods which dive a couple levels down from the method ...
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Is it feasible and useful to auto-generate some code of unit tests?
Earlier today I have come up with an idea, based upon a particular real use case, which I would want to have checked for feasability and usefulness. This question will feature a fair chunk of Java ...
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Inheritance vs containment while extending a large legacy project
I have got a legacy Java project with a lot of code. The code uses MVC pattern and is well structured and well written. It also has a lot of unit tests and it is still actively maintained (bug fixing, ...
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Is it worth writing a unit test for a DTO with the most basic getter/setters? [duplicate]
The advantage is it protects your DTO against future "enhancements" ?
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