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Arquillian Testing Guide

By : John D. Ament
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Arquillian Testing Guide

By: John D. Ament

Overview of this book

<p>Integration testing sometimes involves writing complex codes. This book introduces you to the capabilities of Arquillian to enable you to write simple code with a broad range of integration tests for java applications. <br /><br />Arquillian Testing Guide serves as an introductory book to writing simple codes for testing java applications. This book will help you to develop richer test cases which can be run automatically while performing rigorous testing of the software. <br /><br />Arquillian Testing Guide introduces you to Arquillians features and capabilities. This book will help you understand the mechanism of creating deployments and test against those deployments. The book begins with basic JUnit test cases beginning with an enterprise test case, which then go on to discuss remote testing. During the course of the book, you will also learn how to mix container and non-container tests into a single test case. By the end of the book, you will have learned how to extend JUnit tests to work with Arquillian and deploy them to a container automatically.</p>
Table of Contents (17 chapters)

What is ShrinkWrap?


ShrinkWrap is a domain specific language (DSL) for accessing, creating, and manipulating archives. It is instantiated using a static call to the ShrinkWrap class, and takes a class as an argument to know what kind of archive we're working with. It can start as simple as ShrinkWrap.create(JavaArchive.class) to make a new Archive. You can also import a file easily, using ShrinkWrap.createFromZipFile(JavaArchive.class,new File("myfile.jar")).

ShrinkWrap is meant to be easy to use, simplistic, and extensible. When you create an archive it will be deployed to your container. While Arquillian supports manual creation and deployment, it is much easier to allow Arquillian to deploy your archive for you. ShrinkWrap will make this process as simple or complex as you need, allowing you to bring in external dependencies, build complex archive structures, or even just importing a file from the file system; it's your choice.

Creating archives

Primarily you're going to work with three...