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Code coverage is like compiling

Saturday, December 13, 2008

Several months ago, I began a concerted effort at work to get our code coverage numbers up. This was prompted by an upper management target of 85% code coverage by a certain date, which I initially saw as unrealistic within any timeframe. I hadn't done much work with code coverage, but I did [...]

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Double dereferenced properties in Ant with Groovy

Thursday, December 11, 2008

The TestNG report system is nice, but sometimes you need to integrate the TestNG output with some other test reporting system. At work, this other system requires that a single ".suc" or ".dif" file written to a common directory for each "test" you run, where "test" is defined however you want. In our [...]

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Testing inside a servlet with Ant, TestNG, and Groovy

Saturday, June 28, 2008

In a previous post, I talked about how I run my TestNG unit/integration tests from within an EJB. The EJB implemented the old 2.0 standard, which meant that maintaining all of the configuration metadata was a continual effort sink. I recently moved it to simply use a servlet, which I should have done [...]

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TestNG, part 2

Sunday, February 10, 2008

Since migrating from JUnit 3, TestNG has been wonderful. Groups are the killer feature of TestNG that really make it worth the migration cost. When wanting to test a single method, I no longer need to manually comment or uncomment method names in the suite() method, I can just add a new group [...]

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TestNG Migration

Wednesday, January 30, 2008

The past couple days at work, I've been migrating all of our JUnit 3 tests to TestNG. The main motivation was the ability to easily create arbitrary collections of tests. When working on a single bug or feature, it's common to write a test that only exercises the code you're working on so [...]

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