4.9. Testing

CUBA applications can be tested using well-known approaches: unit, integration and UI testing.

Unit tests are well suited for testing business logic encapsulated in specific classes and loosely coupled with the application infrastructure. You can just create the test directory in the global, core or web module of your project and start writing JUnit tests. If you need mocks, add a dependency on your favorite mocking framework or JMockit which is already used by CUBA. The mocking framework dependency must be added to the build.gradle file before JUnit:

configure([globalModule, coreModule, webModule]) {
    // ...
    dependencies {
        testCompile('org.jmockit:jmockit:1.48') (1)
        testCompile('org.junit.jupiter:junit-jupiter-api:5.5.2')
        testCompile('org.junit.jupiter:junit-jupiter-engine:5.5.2')
        testCompile('org.junit.vintage:junit-vintage-engine:5.5.2')
    }
    // ...
    test {
        useJUnitPlatform()
        jvmArgumentProviders.add(new JmockitAgent(classpath)) (2)
    }
}

class JmockitAgent implements CommandLineArgumentProvider { (3)

    FileCollection classpath

    JmockitAgent(FileCollection classpath) {
        this.classpath = classpath
    }

    Iterable<String> asArguments() {
        def path = classpath.find { it.name.contains("jmockit") }.absolutePath
        ["-javaagent:${path}"]
    }
}
1 - add your mocking framework here
2 - in case of JMockit, you should specify -javaagent argument when running tests
3 - a class that finds JMockit JAR on classpath and constructs the required -javaagent value

See also Unit Testing in CUBA Applications guide.

Integration tests run in the Spring container, so they are able to test most aspects of your application, including interaction with the database and UI screens. This section describes how to create integration tests on the middleware and web tiers.

For UI tests, we recommend using the Masquerade library which provides a set of useful abstractions for testing CUBA applications. See README and Wiki sections on GitHub.