Testing process

[Desai Sandeep]

Hi,
I suppose this is one of the subjects which is not covered much during our discussions at Javaranch.Is there a Framework which provides writing and running automated tests?
Thanks in advance,
Sandeep

[ersin eser]

www.junit.org
www.parasoft.com/products/jtest

[Desai Sandeep]

Thank you, Ersin
Will get back to you with specific questions I have on this subject.
Regards,
Sandeep

[Kyle Brown]

I strongly suggest you look at JUnit. It's very well supported by the Extreme Programming (XP) community and it has a ton of additional tools for it. It's also very well documented in gazillions of articles and books (like Martin Fowler's "Refactoring").
However, I just want to let you know I REALLY like it. I've been using it since just a few weeks after Kent and Erich first wrote it and I LOVE it.
Kyle
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[Paul Newton]

I would echo Kyle's endorsement. JUnit has everything I like in a tool: painfully simple but so powerful. I would not embark on a software project without xUnit.
regards,
paul.

[Mark Herschberg]

As much as a like JUnit, be sure you understand that it is just for unit testing. It is not well suited to web testing, load testing, GUI testing, client/server testing, etc.
JTest is very similar, but commercial. I like JTest in principle, but hate the UI. JTest has the same limitations as the ones named for JUnit, above.

--Mark

[Paul Newton]

Good point Mark. Unit testing is just one part of the ugly testing game.
For simple performance testing and stress tests, you could take a look at the Apache JMeter tool. Pretty simple and still very buggy, but useful for some simple load simulations. I use it for simulating concurrent users for web applications. Could be an interesting tool for the future.
regards,
paul.

[Junilu Lacar]

True, JUnit is mainly for unit testing. However, there are other frameworks out there that are extensions of JUnit that are targetted for client/server, server-side, http, etc. unit testing. The Jakarta Cactus project is a JUnit-based test framework for the server-side and IIRC, the unit tests for the Struts framework are written for use with Cactus. There is also HttpUnit, which is for the web client side testing. I haven't used them myself yet but hope to RSN.
Junilu