Introduction

This document describes the technical aspects of the testing integrated into Dspace. In it we describe the tools used as well as how to use them and the solutions applied to some issues found during development. It's intended to serve as a reference for the community so more test cases can be created.

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There is a set of tools used by all the tests. These tools will be described in this section.

Maven

The build tool for DSpace, Maven, will also be used to run the tests. For this we will use the [Surefire|http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-surefire-plugin/] plugin, which allows us to launch automatically tests included in the "test" folder of the project. We also include the Surefire-reports plugin in case you are not using a Continous Integration environment that can read the output and generate the reports.

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or by changing the property "activeByDefault" at the corresponding profile (skiptests) in the main pom.xml file, at the root of the project.

JUnit

[JUnit|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JUnit] is a testing framework for Java applications. It was one of the first testing frameworks for Java and it's a widespread use in the community. The framework simplifies the development of unit tests and the current IDE's make even easier building those tests from existing classes and running them.

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As of JUnit 4.4, [Harmcrest|http://code.google.com/p/hamcrest/] is included. Harmcrest is a library of matcher objects that facilitate the validation of conditions in the tests.

JMockit

[JMockit|http://code.google.com/p/jmockit/] is popular and powerful mocking framework. Unlike other mocking frameworks it can mock final classes and methods, static methods, constructors and other code fragments that can't be mocked using other frameworks.

JMockit 0.998 has been added to the project to provide a mocking framework to the tests.

ContiPerf

[ContiPerf|http://databene.org/contiperf.html] is a lightweight testing utility that enables the user to easily leverage JUnit 4 test cases as performance tests e.g. for continuous performance testing.

The project makes use of ContiPerf 1.06.

H2

[H2|http://www.h2database.com/html/main.html] is an in-memory database that has been used 

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