Good functional testing is one of the most difficult tasks for web application developers and their teams. It is a challenge to develop tests that are cheap to maintain and yet provide good test coverage, which helps reduce QA costs and increase quality. Both Selenium and WebDriver (which is essentially now the successor to Selenium) … Read more
In a previous post, we discussed how to actually go about combining mockFor() and mockDomain() when it comes to unit test support for .withCriteria. If your code uses the Gorm.createCriteria(), you’ll likely want to switch to .withCriteria to make it unit testable. We promised to cover using HQL as well so let’s do that now. … Read more
As we’ve mentioned before, anything you can do to make automated testing easier in your Grails project will help you achieve one of the primary goals of the platform – high productivity. Since you’ve chosen the Grails platform, you’re likely making good use of its features such as GORM, plugins, convention based spring wiring and … Read more
Groovy and even more so, Grails, demands automated testing. In fact, extensive coverage is a must to have confidence that we are not regressing or introducing runtime resolution issues with a single errant keystroke. Grails expects you to write tests and each grails project has the familiar test/unit, test/integration and test/functional source folders. Of course, … Read more