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Unit Test

For framework developers, writing unit tests is a must. These tests will help developers to verify if their changes in the code base break anything. Without unit tests, it would be so scary to make code changes. For API/service developers, it is encouraged to write unit tests to facilitate CI/CD devops flow.

There are two type of test cases and they serve different purposes and will be triggered at different step of life cycle. In this section, we are focus on unit tests. There is another article that discusses integration tests.

Unit Test

Unit tests will be executed every time the code is changed and they may be executed many times a day. They need to run as fast as possible so that developers will enjoy running them. They need to cover the majority of branches in the code but without dependencies to external systems.

The unit tests sit in /src/test folder as default and they have class names like Test and method names prefix with test, to indicate that they are test cases.

JUnit 5

The majority of our unit tests were written in Junit 4.12 and we are in a transition to Junit 5 now. To use Junit5, you need to put the dependency into the parent pom.

            <dependency>
                <groupId>org.junit.jupiter</groupId>
                <artifactId>junit-jupiter-engine</artifactId>
                <version>${version.junit}</version>
                <scope>test</scope>
            </dependency>

The current junit version is 5.0.1

Maven surefire plugin

Unit test cases are executed by surefire plugin and this is defined in the pom.xml in the parent pom.

            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>2.19.1</version>
                <dependencies>
                    <dependency>
                        <groupId>org.junit.platform</groupId>
                        <artifactId>junit-platform-surefire-provider</artifactId>
                        <version>1.0.1</version>
                        <scope>compile</scope>
                    </dependency>
                </dependencies>
            </plugin>

How to run junit test without triggering integration test during development.

If you only want junit tests to be executed, please user package.

mvn clean package

If you want to run both unit tests and integration tests.

mvn clean verify
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