Chapter 6. Coarse-grained testing with stubs

And yet it moves.

Galileo

This chapter covers

As you develop your applications, you’ll find that the code you want to test depends on other classes, which themselves depend on other classes, which then depend on the environment. For example, you might be developing an application that uses JDBC to access a database, a Java EE application (one that relies on a Java EE container for security, persistence, and other services), an application that accesses a file system, or an application that connects to some resource using HTTP, SOAP, or another protocol.

In the previous chapters, we introduced the JUnit framework. Starting in this chapter, we look at using JUnit to test an application that depends on external resources.

6.1. Introducing stubs

6.2. Stubbing an HTTP connection

6.3. Stubbing the web server’s resources

6.4. Stubbing the connection

6.5. Summary