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Clearing static state before testing each method
My SUT class depends on external static state (which generally should be avoided, I know).
How do I make sure my tests do not depend on their order of execution?
I mean other by introducing some reset(...
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Is Spring Boot Unit Test Coverage with Integration tests only a bad practice?
I have recently come across a few codebases at work where the previous developers chose to reach the >80% coverage criteria by writing only integration tests with the @SpringBootTest annotation ...
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Would you test this piece of configuration code? How do I determine which code is worth testing?
We have a piece of code that decorates an interface to transparently add retry logic.
Inversion of Control configuration
service.AddOurRestApiClient()
.AddResilienceHandler("Retry", ...
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Mock a bean with 10 methods when I only use one?
I face some situations similar to the following simplified one:
@Component class ServiceOne {
@Autowired ServiceTwo two;
void act() {
...
two.a();
...
}
}
@...
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How to avoid unit test duplication in wrapper classes?
Assuming I’ve a class with three methods, startCollection, add, endCollection.
One test case is: if start was not called, add should return an error.
I’ve mocked the persistency storing the state with ...
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How to cover by tests HTTP API wrapping library
As mentioned in title, I don't understand how I supposed to cover by tests code which is just wrap http api.
I guess I can write only unit tests, because wrapped service is paid. Integration tests in ...
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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 I mock ObjectMapper in my unit tests?
I have different services in a spring application that have a dependency on Jackson ObjectMapper, the unit tests rely on @InjectMocks to inject all the various dependencies to the class that is under ...
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How do I deal with the fact that I am forced to make helper functions public for testing purposes?
I've encountered several scenarios that require me to mock certain helper methods because they call outside resources. As a result, I'm forced to convert all my helper methods from private into public....
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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 to test when testing an API? [closed]
When testing an API (with, for example, Java), what parts should I actually be testing when calling methods of my Controller class (e.g. a Spring RestController)?
For example, lets say I've got a ...
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Understanding property based testing
I'm reading about property based testing and I'm wondering how can I test this my code using that paradigm.
class Invoice {
private final String id;
private final String companyName;
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Philosophy on unit testing daisy-chained methods?
Problem Statement:
I have a class that does some validation and it looks something like this:
func a() {b()}
func b() {c()}
func c() {d()}
func d() {e()}
func e() {return}
This is a simplified view, ...
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Unit testing a void method
In order to fix a bug in an application, I modified a method named postLogin by adding a call to an existing method named getShoppingCart.
Code
protected void postLogin() {
getShoppingCart();
}
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How to manage non-unit tests in a project?
I have some code in my project I personally call tests that are not unit tests. They are meant to be run and the result has to be evaluated by a human. I did this because I'm making a physics engine ...
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