Say you want to test your automated scripts on your local machine before deploying on the cloud. Ideally, you’d need some kind of virtualized environment to emulate the production situation as closely as possible. In this post, we’ll set up such an environment using the trusty and venerable VirtualBox.
Being the test-driven developer that you are, you are writing a Jasmine test for your AngularJS factory function, which returns a promise generated by our beloved $q. You know how to test an asynchronous response with Jasmine. You confidently run the test and… bam, you get an error message “Timeout – Async callback was not invoked within timeout specified by jasmine.DEFAULT_TIMEOUT_INTERVAL”
It’s an accepted trend nowadays: according to many TDD and BDD are useful tools with many advantages, and to others they are not. In this post I will not start that old debate again. I will however expose to you one great, possibly overlooked advantage in having extensive test/behavior/specifications coverage: a better team collaboration.
So you want to validate the data sent to your application’s REST services? Nowadays you can quite easily do that using Spring and the Bean Validation API. And to help you test that validation process, how about bringing in Spring Boot to programmatically start your application and run your tests against it?
