Unit testing is an indispensable aspect of software development. Testing gives us confidence that our code works fine and provides us a safety net when refactoring. Fortunately, Gradle's Java plugin makes it simple and easy to unit test your code.
We will write a simple test for the same example app we created above. We will create our first unit test now using JUnit (v4.12) library.
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More information about JUnit can be found at http://junit.org.
Again, like Maven, Java test sources are kept in the src/test/java directory relative to the project root. We will create this directory and, as a good practice, the test package structure will reflect the same hierarchy as the source packages.
... src └── test └── java // test source root └── com └── packtpub └── ge └── hello └── GreetingServiceTest.java ...
We will add test for the GreetingService. By convention, the...