Unitils by Filip Neven and Tim Ducheyne

Abstract

Unitils is a new open source library aimed at simplifying unit testing using JUnit or TestNG. Unitils builds further on existing libraries like DBUnit and EasyMock. It was started as a small framework of base classes, providing support for a number of guidelines and best practices in unit testing. The features it offers are:

General testing utilities:

Equality assertion through reflection, with different options like ignoring Java default/null values and ignoring order of collections

Database testing utilities:

Automatic maintenance and constraints disabling of unit test databases
Simplify unit test database connection setup
Simplify insertion of test data with DBUnit
Simplify Hibernate session management for unit testing
Automatically test the mapping of Hibernate mapped objects with the database

Mock object utilities:

Simplify EasyMock mock object creation
Simplify mock object injection
EasyMock argument matching using reflection equality

Speaker: Filip Neven

Filip is senior software engineer at Ordina with 5 years of experience in Java and J2EE. He has a strong interest for agile development, code quality and unit testing. For the past 2 years, he has been responsible for quality and unit testing on different projects.