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Scala Test-Driven Development

By : Gaurav Sood
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Scala Test-Driven Development

By: Gaurav Sood

Overview of this book

Test-driven development (TDD) produces high-quality applications in less time than is possible with traditional methods. Due to the systematic nature of TDD, the application is tested in individual units as well as cumulatively, right from the design stage, to ensure optimum performance and reduced debugging costs. This step-by-step guide shows you how to use the principles of TDD and built-in Scala testing modules to write clean and fully tested Scala code and give your workflow the change it needs to let you create better applications than ever before. After an introduction to TDD, you will learn the basics of ScalaTest, one of the most flexible and most popular testing tools around for Scala, by building your first fully test-driven application. Building on from that you will learn about the ScalaTest API and how to refactor code to produce high-quality applications. We’ll teach you the concepts of BDD (Behavior-driven development) and you’ll see how to add functional tests to the existing suite of tests. You’ll be introduced to the concepts of Mocks and Stubs and will learn to increase test coverage using properties. With a concluding chapter on miscellaneous tools, this book will enable you to write better quality code that is easily maintainable and watch your apps change for the better.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Scala Test-Driven Development
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Mockito


MockitoSugar in ScalaTest provides syntactic sugar for using Mockito with ScalaTest.

In my experience, I have found Mockito to be the easiest to use among all the frameworks. It is quite easy to create a mock from ServiceClass by simply using mock[ServiceClass].

Mockito leads to a very understandable test format. I think that is one of the reasons for its popularity over jMock and EasyMock.

Let us rewrite the same example from jMock and EasyMock with Mockito. It will look something like this:

// First, create the mock object 
val mockService = mock[ServiceClass] 
 
// Create the class under test and pass the mock to it 
classUnderTest = new ClassUnderTest 
classUnderTest.addService(mock) 
 
// Use the class under test 
classUnderTest.createPayroll("Person1", 1000) 
classUnderTest.createPayroll("Person1", 4000) 
classUnderTest.createPayroll("Person1", 6000) 
classUnderTest.createPayroll("Person1", 19000) 
 
// Then verify...