Last week we kicked of a “Testing Skill Group” at LINEAS, a group for exchanging knowledge about testing. One question that came up over and over again in various flavors was: What tools are there for testing and analyzing your code? So here is my personal answer for this, in the approximately order I tend [...]
My favorite feature in the JUnit are Rules. With Rules you can manipulate the execution of your test, by wrapping your own code around the test execution. I have used this for setting up databases for test, making sure they execute in the EDT, limiting legal test execution time and for set up and tear [...]
Some time ago David Saff announced a beta release of JUnit 4.9. So I guess it is a good point in time to look into what is new in this version. One of the most useful innovations in the JUnit realm have been Rules. I wrote about Rules here. And I wrote about use cases [...]
