Test Driven SOA – citrus for powerful SOA test coverage by Jang Vijay Singh

May 28, 2017 Leave a comment

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Reading parts of Test-Driven Development for Embedded C" by James W. Grenning inspired me to take another look at this area and look for something new,  fresh and powerful for use in the SOA world. 
I don’t think we need much convincing on the importance of  automated test coverage (if someone does, please read the first chapter of the book mentioned above, especially the section on "Physics of TDD" that tries to quantify the high long-term costs of "Debug later programming" – the nemesis of TDD)
A very simple application with a SOA composite project and Tests project can be found here: https://github.com/jvsingh/SOATestingWithCitrus
Although the test in this is just a simple SOAP request, what I am interested in are the features that citrus has to offer that can help create a solid battery of tests.

  • Tests can be specified in Java or XML or a combination of both
  • A number of test utilities are inbuilt – including things like database access, JMS,mock SOAP endpoints (static responses), complex assertions – and these can be used to write complex setup and teardown routines.

I will leave the reader to peruse the code on github but this shows the most important pieces of config in my test project: Read the complete article here.

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About Jürgen Kress
As a middleware expert Jürgen works at Oracle EMEA Alliances and Channels, responsible for Oracle’s EMEA Fusion Middleware partner business. He is the founder of the Oracle SOA & BPM and the WebLogic Partner Communities and the global Oracle Partner Advisory Councils. With more than 5000 members from all over the world the Middleware Partner Community is the most successful and active community at Oracle. Jürgen manages the community with monthly newsletters, webcasts and conferences. He hosts his annual Fusion Middleware Partner Community Forums and the Fusion Middleware Summer Camps, where more than 200 partners get product updates, roadmap insights and hands-on trainings. Supplemented by many web 2.0 tools like twitter, discussion forums, online communities, blogs and wikis. For the SOA & Cloud Symposium by Thomas Erl, Jürgen is a member of the steering board. He is also a frequent speaker at conferences like the SOA & BPM Integration Days, JAX, UKOUG, OUGN, or OOP.

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