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10 Side notes JAX London 2016

Quick notes from session 10 of JAX London 2016. Making Sense of Microservices preseneted by Russ Miles & Junit session by Nicolai Parlog.

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Session 1

Session: 12th Oct — 14:15 to 14:45 Making Sense of Microservices: Maximizing Development Productivity and Minimizing Mistakes by Russ Miles

Notes:

Session 2

Session: 12th Oct — 16:30 to 17:20 JUnit 5: Next Generation Testing on the JVM by Nicolai Parlog, Disy Informationssysteme GmbH

Notes

  • Junit 5 is in working progress as per Oct — 2016. Users Guide

  • Junit 5 Github repo

  • Junit 5 introduces extension points with custom annotations.

  • Test methods could have package scope.

  • Group assertion AssertAll() method.

  • AssertThrows() with assert message descriptions.

  • Nested tests: more capabilities to express the relationship among several group of tests.

  • Inject parameters with dependency injection.

  • No lambdas testing yet supported.

  • Dynamic tests with @TestFactory. To verify a set of tests values across same test case.

  • Framework extension points for test runners. Open door to a new generation of test frameworks. Open test framework platform.

That was all for this session.

Many thanks for reading, please leave a comment if you have any quality hint.

Keep on testing, better!

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