Articles for December, 2014

BDD Testing with Cucumber, Java and JUnit

Sunday, December 28th, 2014

Whether behaviour-driven-development, specification by example or acceptance test driven development is the goal, the Cucumber framework eases our life when we need to  establish a link between the non-technical, textual description for a new feature and the tests that prove that the application fulfils these requirements.

In the following short tutorial I’d like to demonstrate how to add Cucumber to a Java project and how to write feature descriptions and test-cases for each step of these descriptions. (more…)

Java EE: Setting up and Testing Form-Based JDBC Authentication with Arquillian and Maven

Sunday, December 21st, 2014

Especially when it comes to testing, setting up a decent environment for a secured Java EE web application isn’t always an easy thing to do.

In the following tutorial I’d like to demonstrate how to create a secured web application using form-based authentication and a JDBC realm to fetch users and roles and how to run the application in an embedded container for testing and development.

Additionally I’d like to show how to write and run integration tests to verify the security setup using a setup of Maven, Embedded GlassFish, Arquillian, jUnit and rest-assured.

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