Unit Testing in Eclipse for Java: just an overview

Why Unit Test?

Say, you have written some Java classes, before making use of them in real application functionalities, it’s always better to check whether the classes (their functions/methods) are working properly. Unit tests simply test a single unit like a single class, or a single function at a time. It’s almost always a good practice to design the software first, also design the classes and their methods along with interactions among classes, early in the project. After, classes and their methods are written, you should do some testing to make sure they are working properly.

How to Unit test in Eclipse?

1. You need to add junit.jar in your project build path. You can do that by selecting the project, then right click, then select properties, the java build path, then libraries tab, and then add jars/add external jars and select JUnit.jar.

2. You can create a folder to keep your unit test codes say unittestcodes.

3. The basic idea is, to test a class, you will need to create a test case class with methods like setUp, tearDown, and test methods for all the methods that you want to test (one for one). The setUp() method can be used to create the data for testing [you have to write the code though]. The other test methods will call the corresponding class methods using the data to check if the methods are working properly or not. Methods like assertTrue may come handy in the test methods.

4. How to create these test classes and test methods?

Right click the folder for testcode like unittestcodes, select new, select other, type Junit in the text box, select Junit test case…and then provide other parameters like the name of your test class, which class do you want to test, do you want to have setUp(), tearDown() methods or not?. In the next step, you have to select which methods of the class you want to test. Then the test class (skeleton) will be written for you.

5. In the setUp() method, write code to build test data. From the other test methods call the related class methods to test them.

6. How to run the experiment: right click the name of this test class from the left window, select run as, select Junit test case. Now analyze the output and fix the class methods if required. Try with different data, data from different ranges, boundary value data and you know what to test in your use cases. From: http://sitestree.com/?p=4821
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Use third party API bundles like jexcelApi.
http://jexcelapi.sourceforge.net/.

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create an XML file to define the structure of your excel file like how many columns, column names, corresponding database table/class column/variable name,

Create a Java class that can retrieve information from that xml file. You can use XPATH and DOM for the purpose. check http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/x-javaxpathapi.html for ideas

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write an html form that use input type=’file’, the form action should point to the servlet that will collect data from the excel file and store it in the database. servlet will collect data from the input stream

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in the servlet use the class that represents the xml file. to get information about the file that will help mapping the excel file data to the corresponding table column. You can also create a class representing the database table. From servlet extract data, create an object of table class type, and create a function that takes the object and inserts into the table.

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How servlet will process the excel file:

jexcelAPI Workbook class represents the total workbook
use getsheet method of workbook class to get the sheet number 0,1,2….

use getCell method of worksheet to get a particular cell object in the excel file
use getContents on the cell object to get data in string type.

from the XML file having excel file structure, you can get number of columns in the file. So you can write a look that will read data row,column wise from the excel file

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code to process excel file [in servlet]

Workbook workbook = Workbook.getWorkbook(new File(“myfile.xls”));

Sheet sheet = workbook.getSheet(0);

Cell a1 = sheet.getCell(0,0);

Cell b2 = sheet.getCell(1,1);

Cell c2 = sheet.getCell(2,1);

String stringa1 = a1.getContents();

String stringb2 = b2.getContents();

String stringc2 = c2.getContents();

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check the following webpage, it provides file upload and extract data from input stream in servlet applications

http://jexcelapi.sourceforge.net/resources/faq/

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/* * LinkedList.java * * Created on January 10, 2008, 8:51 PM * * To change this template, choose Tools | Template Manager * and open the template in the editor. */package linkedlist;import java.util.List;import java.util.LinkedList;import java.util.Iterator;import java.util.ListIterator;import java.util.Collections;import java.util.Random;/** * * @author Sayed */public class LinkedListTest {        /** Creates a new instance of LinkedList */    public LinkedListTest() {    }        /**     *Example operations using linked lists     */        public void linkedListOperation(){                final int MAX = 10;        int counter = 0;        //create two linked lists        List listA = new LinkedList();        List listB = new LinkedList();        //store data in the linked list A        for (int i = 0; i < MAX; i++) {            System.out.println("  - Storing Integer(" + i + ")");            listA.add(new Integer(i));        }               //print data from the linked list using iterator         Iterator it = listA.iterator();        while (it.hasNext()) {            System.out.println(it.next());        }        //print data from the linked list using listIterator.         counter = 0;        ListIterator liIt = listA.listIterator();        while (liIt.hasNext()) {            System.out.println("Element [" + counter + "] = " + liIt.next());            System.out.println("  - hasPrevious    = " + liIt.hasPrevious());            System.out.println("  - hasNext        = " + liIt.hasNext());            System.out.println("  - previousIndex  = " + liIt.previousIndex());            System.out.println("  - nextIndex      = " + liIt.nextIndex());            System.out.println();            counter++;        }        //retrieve data from the linked list using index        for (int j=0; j < listA.size(); j++) {            System.out.println("[" + j + "] - " + listA.get(j));        }        //find the location of an element        int locationIndex = listA.indexOf("5");        System.out.println("Index location of the String "5"" is: "" + locationIndex);          //find the first and the last location of an element        System.out.println(""First occurance search for String ""5"".  Index =  "" + 		listA.indexOf(""5""));        System.out.println(""Last Index search for String ""5"".       Index =  "" + 		listA.lastIndexOf(""5""));        //create a sublist from the list         List listSub = listA.subList(10

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• A good example: http://developerlife.com/tutorials/?p=25
• Another very good example: http://www.developerfusion.co.uk/show/2064/: I followed this code to extract attribute values from an xml file.

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   1. Open the file with the File class;   2. Create a FileInputStream object using the File object;   3. Convert the FileInputStream to a BufferedInputStream to greatly increase file reading speed;   4. Convert the BufferedInputStream to a DataInputStream; the methods of DataInputStream        give a fair amount of flexibility in        reading the data.   5. Read the file until the endFile f = new File("mydata.txt"); FileInputStream fis = new FileInputStream(f); BufferedInputStream bis = new BufferedInputStream(fis); DataInputStream dis = new DataInputStream(bis);  String record = null; try {    while ( (record=dis.readLine()) != null ) {       //       // put your logic here to work with "record"       //    } } catch (IOException e) {    //    // put your error-handling code here    // } 

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