Unit Testing Assistant for JavaThe shift to Agile has amplified the challenges associated with unit testing thatthreatento erase the gains made by adopting iterative development approaches in the first place: - Unit tests are expensive to create and maintain in terms of resources. Someone with the technical knowledge and understanding of the code is required to construct the tests and update them as the code evolves.
- Unit tests are often executed without the context of the user story. Without traceability from test torequirement, organizations may not have full confidence that the test verifies the intended functionality.
- Unmaintained or poorly constructed tests might behave inconsistently and become highly dependent on the environment. As a result, tests may introduce volatility into the regression suite as the code evolves, making it impossible to reliably execute the tests in a continuous environment.
The JtestUnit Test Assistant (UTA)a, which helps developers create meaningful, maintainable unit tests, solves these problems. UTA not only reduces the time to create unit tests, its interface removes some of the technical barriers that have historically required developer expertise. In addition to easing the burdens of writing unit tests, UTA can actually analyze existing tests to root out potential issues, such as stability. The unit test monitoring functionality helps identify tests that are highly dependent on the environment, enabling teams to improve the test so that it can consistently run in isolation. Additionally, UTA enables a developer to track an object during test execution to generate assertions on the observed changes of the object. |