FEST is a collection of APIs, released under the Apache 2.0 license, which mission is to simplify software testing.
Modules
FEST is composed of various modules, all of them can be used with TestNG or JUnit.
Swing Module:
* DSL-oriented API for functional Swing GUI testing
* Simulation of user-generated events and reliable GUI component lookup
* Easy-to-use and powerful API that simplifies creation and maintenance of Swing GUI functional tests:
dialog.comboBox("domain").select("Users");
dialog.textBox("username").enterText("alex.ruiz");
dialog.button("ok").click();
dialog.optionPane().requireErrorMessage()
.requireMessage("Please enter your password");
* Ability to take screenshots of failed GUI tests and embed them in a HTML test report
Testability-explorer is a tool which analyzes java byte-codes and computes how difficult it will be to write unit-test. It attempts to help you quantitatively determine how hard your code is to test and, where to focus to make it more testable.
Test metric tool can be used:
1. As a learning tool which flags causes of hard to test code with detailed breakdown of reasons.
2. To identify hard to test hair-balls in legacy code.
3. As part of your code analysis-toolset.
4. As a tool which can be added into continuous integration that can enforce testable code.
TestabilityExplorer.org records the testability scores for many open source and commercial Java libraries.
The compiled bytecode for the library is analyzed and metrics are calculated for the testability of individual classes. Those classes fall into one of three categories - 'excellent', 'good' and 'needs work'. Generally speaking, injectability, mockabiliy and composition are good, and static state is bad. Figures are recursively calculated, but only inside the jar in question.
The metrics are a calculation of the skill of the development team in making their classes testable. You cannot use these metrics to say that Tomcat is better than Jetty or vice versa, as the features of each are not taken into account. These metrics will also not tell you whether a particular library will be easy to use or not. It just tells you how dedicated the development team was to making testable software. As we track the changing figures overtime, we can see whether the team in question was dedicated to improvement or not.
Unitils is an open source library aimed at making unit testing easy and maintainable. Unitils builds further on existing libraries like DBUnit and EasyMock and integrates with JUnit and TestNG.
Unitils provides general asserion utilities, support for database testing, support for testing with mock objects and offers integration with Spring and Hibernate. It has been designed to offer these services to unit tests in a very configurable and loosely coupled way. As a result, services can be added and extended very easily.
Currently Unitils offers following features:
* General testing utilities
o Equality assertion through reflection, with different options like ignoring Java default/null values and ignoring order of collections
* Database testing utilities
o Automatic maintenance and constraints disabling of unit test databases
+ Support for Oracle, Hsqldb, MySql, DB2, Postgresql and Derby
o Simplify unit test database connection setup
o Simplify insertion of test data with DBUnit
o Simplify Hibernate session management for unit testing
o Automatically test the mapping of Hibernate mapped objects with the database
o Manage transactions during unit testing
* Mock object utilities
o Simplify EasyMock mock object creation
o Simplify mock object injection
o EasyMock argument matching using reflection equality
* Spring integration
o ApplicationContext configuration and easy injection of spring managed beans into a unit test
o Support for using a Spring-configured Hibernate SessionFactory in unit tests.
The project started begin 2006 from an Ordina J-Technologies discussion group on unit testing. The result was a list of guidelines and Unitils emerged in an attempt to write code to support these guidelines.
Documentation
Dependometer is a java based analysis tool for java projects.
Features are:
Use a logical architecture description in terms of Layers and Subsystems and their physical mapping (n Packages implement a Subsystem) and check logical architecture violations.
* Analyze the dependency architecture between Layers, Subsystems, Packages, Compilation Units (Java files) and Types (Classes and Interfaces)
* Calculate a bunch of metrics for all elements - this includes metrics from John Lakos, Robert C. Martin and Craig Larman
* Analyze cycles between elements
* Define thresholds and receive feedback upon their violation
Simulate via simple refactoring definitions and cutting unwanted dependencies changes to the physical structure possibly enhancing refactoring.
Create a complete HTML presentation via xslt. This provides browsing capabilities from Layer (logical element) to Compilation Unit (physical element) for a discussion which physical elements cause the logical architecture to break.
AutAT
* is an open source Eclipse plugin,
* makes test driven development of web applications easier,
* contains a rich graphical editor for specifying how web-sites should function,
* is written using the Eclipse Graphical Editing Framework (GEF),
* converts a visual representation of web tests into executable tests, and
* executes the tests and gives you direct feedback.