Posts tagged test
Run PostgreSQL in a ram disk
At a a project I am heavily relying on PostgreSQL in the unit tests. This works fine but creating and dropping databases takes quite a while which goes against the purpose of unit tests. One simple solution to this is to run PostgreSQL in a RAM disk which will make IO-heavy operations a snap.
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Thanks to Spring’s new MVC Annotations (@Controller, @RequestMapping, @RequestParam etc.) unit testing a Spring controller is now easier than ever before. Still, I had a hard time figuring out how to do this since most of your controller methods will not take a ServletRequest as input. Instead they use a form-backing / command object, a BindingResult and maybe a ModelMap. In a web environment Spring takes care of filling the command object and validation results however in a unit test you will have to do this yourself.
Following is the basic outline for writing such a test.
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