Manifesto for Software Craftsmanship

http://manifesto.softwarecraftsmanship.org/

And here a very nice SE Radio episode about software craftsmanship with Bob Martin. http://www.se-radio.net/podcast/2009-11/episode-150-software-craftsmanship-bob-martin

JUnit 4.8 is released

JUnit News

http://www.junit.org/node/581

and here a the release notes

http://kentbeck.github.com/junit/doc/ReleaseNotes4.8.html

Example JUnit Test With Test Steps

Some times in a tests we want to have separate test steps that means to ensure the run of more then one statement e.g. assert statements.

Here a simple JUnit test, this tests show how such tests steps can look in a JUnit 4.X tests:

public class StackTest {

 Stack stack;

 @Before public void createStack() {
  stack = new Stack();
 }

 @Test public void push() {
  new Steps() {
   
   @Step public void setupPushElementsInStack() {
    stack.push("Element One");
    stack.push("Element Three");
    stack.push("Element X");
   }
   
   @Step public void verifyStackSizeIsThree() {
    assertEquals(2, stack.size());
   }
   
   @Step public void verifyStackElementOne() {
    assertElementIs(0, "Element One");
   }
   
   @Step public void verifyStackElementTwo() {
    assertElementIs(1, "XY");
   }
   
  };
 }

 private void assertElementIs(int position, String expected) {
  String element = stack.get(position);
  assertEquals(expected, element);
 }
}

And here the test result:

And here the code of the Steps class:

public class Steps {

 private List testStepFailures = new ArrayList();
 
 {
  run();
 }
 
 public final void run() {
  Method[] methods = getClass().getMethods();
  for (Method method : methods) {
   try 
   {
    Step step = method.getAnnotation(Step.class);
    if(step != null){
     method.invoke(this);
    }
   } 
   catch (Exception e) 
   {
    TestFailure failure = new TestFailure();
    failure.method = method;
    failure.exception = e;
    testStepFailures.add(failure);
   } 
  }
  if(testStepFailures.size() > 0){
   throw new TestStepsFailureException(testStepFailures);
  }
 }

}