1.
Java EE Behave!!!!
Behaviour-Driven Development with Java EE
Aaron Walker
a.walker@base2services.com
@aaronwalker
http://aaronwalker.me
http://www.base2services.com
#jeebehave
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2.
Agenda
• What is this BDD thingy
• JBehave
• How to make your tests behave!
• { Demo }
• Java EE flavouring
• { Demo }
• Q &A
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3.
BDD
~ Behaviour Driven Development ~
“BDD facilitates agile development, which is an
approach to develop functional software, within
reasonable timeline, making everyone happy,
without killing anyone, or
burning down any bank.”
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4.
BDD's Core Principles
• It's all behaviour
“The business & technology people should be
speaking the same words when referring to the
same idea,there should not be any translator.”
Behaviour: the addition of N values should yield the
summation of them
Example: the addition of 2 + 4 + 2 should yield 8
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5.
BDD's Core Principles
• The evolution of test-driven development
(TDD) and acceptance-test driven design
• Shifts the vocabulary from being test-based
to behaviour-based
• Essentially a design philosophy
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6.
Unit testing
frameworks mismatch
It’s all about the Behaviour
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7.
Oh JBehave
• a framework for Behaviour-Driven
Development.
• pure Java implementation
• Users can specify and run plain text-
based user stories
• Annotation-based configuration and
Steps class specifications
• Dependency Injection support (more
on this one later)
• Tool/IDE integration
• Ant, Maven, Selenium, Eclipse, IntelliJ,
Netbeans
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8.
Yep....plain text
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9.
Narrative
• Describes the overall intent of the story
• Generally describes a single feature or use
case
• Should include any participating actors
“In order to learn about BDD and JBehave as
a JavaOne attendee I will attend session
24421- JEE Behave!”
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10.
Scenario
• Describes a specific interaction
• Generally fine-grained
• test valid and invalid outcomes
• Support for parametrisation
“Scenario: User signs up with invalid data”
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11.
Given|When|Then|And
• Given ... setting up system to a known
state
• When ... exercising an event
• Then ... verifying an outcome
• And ... used to chain multiple Given, When
and Then statements
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12.
So where’s the Java?
• Mapping Textual Scenario Steps to Java Methods via
annotations
• Steps instances may inherit or implement other class/
interface as required by the model of the application under
test.
• allows many different ways to configure Embeddable Java
classes
• ConfigurableEmbedder: allows the specification of the
Configuration and CandidateSteps.
• InjectableEmbedder: allows the injection of a fully specified
Embedder.
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13.
JUnit
• JUnit is supported out-of-the-box via several
Embeddables implementations:
• JUnitStory: provides a one-to-one mapping
with the textual story via the
StoryPathResolver.
• JUnitStories: provides a many-to-one
mapping with the textual story paths
explicitly specified by overriding the
storyPaths() method.
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14.
One Step at a time
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15.
And the config
• Fluent API for specifying configuration
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16.
{ Demo }
Enough Slide-ware
Show me the Code!!!
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17.
Now lets sprinkle a
little bit of JEE on top
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18.
CDI/Weld
• Contexts and Dependency Injection for
Java
• (JSR-299 included in JEE6)
• Weld is the reference implementation
• http://seamframework.org/Weld
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19.
JBehave CDI support
• jbehave-weld module
• Uses Weld Java-SE integration to bootstrap the CDI
container
• can inject configuration and steps using
CDI annotations
• greatly simplifies the configuration and
management of step classes
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20.
Inject the Configuration
• Use a CDI @Produces along with a
@WeldConfiguration qualifier annotation
• Gets automatically injected into the running
scenario
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21.
What about the Steps
• Simply mark Step classes with a @WeldStep
annotation
• They get automatically added as candidate steps
• Steps can use @Inject to inject dependencies
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22.
{ Demo }
Show me a better way!!!
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23.
JBehave Web
• JBehave Web is an extension of the JBehave
framework providing a web integration layer
• Features include:
• Web Queue to allow generic stories to be run asynchronously
via a simple web interface.
• Web Runner to allow generic stories to be run synchronously
via a simple web interface.
• Selenium integration module to allow automation of stories
for web applications using Selenium.
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24.
{ Demo }
Now let’s put all this together
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25.
System Integration
Testing
• JBehave is a good language for describing
system integration
• BA’s, QA’s, architects, and developers are all
speaking the same language
• Self documented acceptance tests
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26.
What’s Next
• Custom CDI Scopes
• @StoryScope, @ScenarioScope
• Arquillian Integration
• ???????
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27.
Q &A
• http://behaviour-driven.org/
• http://jbehave.org - JBehave project site
• github.com/aaronwalker/JavaOne2011 -
demo code
• http://aaronwalker.me - blog
• a.walker@base2services.com - email
• @aaronwalker - twitter
#jeebehave
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