SpringUnit: The Latest Way to Maximize Your Spring Testing!

Having trouble writing data-driven tests using Spring? Would you like a little more power writing integration tests for you Spring Beans? This session explores the latest tool you can put in your little bag of Spring tricks: SpringUnit!

One of the great things about dependency injection is that it helps you develop your application in a more testable way. Writing your tests first enhances this value even more. However if you write enough tests, you eventually find that some types of tests are more difficult to write, even with the added decoupling that dependency injection provides.

Ted Velkoff discovered this and decided to do something about it. He loved Spring but wanted to write tests that were more data-driven than were possible out of the box with Spring. So he decided to write a surprisingly simple little framework that you can use to ease data-driven and integration testing with Spring.

This session will introduce the original intent of SpringUnit, illustrate how it works, and provide some objective observations to help you determine if it can help you on your project.

About Derek Lane

Derek Lane is the CTO at Semantra. He has worn various hats in his career including mentor, coach, architect, manager, developer, trainer, methodologist and all around cool guy. Derek is a contributor to various projects as author, presenter, committer, and technical reviewer, including his most recent role as co-author for the book, “EJB3 In Action”, published by Manning.

Derek is the Founder of both the Oklahoma City Java User Group (OKCJUG) and the Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas MicroJava User Group; and has been active as a member, presenter, and mentor for over a decade at various technology user groups across the Midwest and Southern US.

Derek can on occasion be found utilizing his background in engineering, Virtual Reality and 3D graphics to think in four or more dimensions - some of which have yet to be independently verified. When not exploring the mind numbing edge of technology, he can be found listening to Bluegrass music and watching old Kung Fu movies - a dangerous combination from any point of view.

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