One point of abstracting away the server and running tests in-memory is to
improve the execution time of these tests, it makes it possible to have
them as unit tests. This is especially nice if you can embed the database
as well (you can use HSQLDB or H2 if you use a relational SQL database).
But you should probably have some integration tests with a real server as
well.
On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 6:41 AM, Ted M. Young [@jitterted] <
tedyoung_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> Agree with Gili here. I do exactly that (though I have the advantage of
> using Dropwizard, which makes testing via an embedded Jetty instance
> trivial). And since you're using MongoDB, there's also the Embedded MongoDB
> (https://github.com/flapdoodle-oss/de.flapdoodle.embed.mongo) which helps
> keep your tests isolated from one another.
>
> ;ted
>
>
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> On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 8:53 PM, cowwoc <cowwoc_at_bbs.darktech.org> wrote:
>
>> In my experience, you're better interacting directly with an embedded
>> server (such as Jetty) rather than using JerseyTest which attempts to
>> abstract away the server. I've never really understood the point of
>> abstracting away the server and I find their abstraction to be leaky (at
>> least, this was the case in the past).
>>
>> Gili
>>
>>
>> On 03/09/2014 10:26 PM, Paul O'Fallon wrote:
>>
>> Have you taken a look at JerseyTest? It supports many different
>> containers, including an in-memory one...
>>
>> On Wednesday, September 3, 2014, Andre Perez <andre.perez1501_at_gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I am using JDK 1.7, Jersey 2.12, Tomcat 7, MongoDB and RestAssured
>>> <https://code.google.com/p/rest-assured/> to unit test my Rest calls...
>>> The issue is that RestAssured needs Tomcat to be running with my war file,
>>> in order, to work. Is there an embedded server or in-memory server along
>>> with a different unit testing framework which I can use to test my Restful
>>> Web Services (basically without be tightly coupled to an external server)?
>>> Would love to hear people's suggestions regarding best practices?
>>>
>>
>>
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