Keep the bar green to keep the code clean

Just over a year ago I wrote a post about working with JUnit in Eclipse. One of the commenters recommended MoreUnit in order to increase testing efficiency even more. Giving it a try I was delighted and the plugin’s keyboard shortcuts were immediately memorized by my autonomic nervous system… Additionally,...

I always believed that using @Ignore to deactivate tests is a bad idea. Except, maybe as one way to put tests that fail intermittently into quarantine to attend to them later (as Martin Fowler describes it here). This bears the danger that the test suite decays as more and more...

JGit is a pure Java library implementing the Git version control system. It is an Eclipse project and started out as the Git library for EGit, which provides a Git integration into the Eclipse IDE. Meanwhile, JGit has further adopters like in Gerrit, GitBlit, GitClient Plugin for Jenkins (work in...

A recent post about Managed Services reminded me of a feature in Apache Felix File Install that I found worth mentioning. While working on a project with Holger, I learned from him that File Install cannot only be used to manage bundles. It also monitors configuration files and updates Managed...

Among my fellow team members, I was known for notoriously forgetting to maintain the (JUnit) test suite. I just can’t get this extra step of manually adding a test to a suite into my fingers. Fortunately, there are continuous integration servers that collect tests by a naming pattern. If one...

Recently I came across a problem where I had to write tests for a method that calculates randomly distributed values within a certain range of possibilities 1. More precisely if you assume a signature that looks like interface RandomRangeValueCalculator { long calculateRangeValue( long center, long radius ); } a test...

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Recently I was dragged into a discussion1 with some test infected2 fellows about how we use JUnit within the Eclipse IDE. Surprisingly the conversation brought up some ‘tips and tricks’ not everybody was aware of. This gave me the idea to write this post doing a sum up of our...

SWTBot is an Eclipse project that enables you to write functional tests for SWT and Workbench based applications in Java. It has API to remote control the application under test and matcher to find widgets and examine their state. For each widget, there is a corresponding bot class with methods...