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Browser Automation and Acceptance Testing with Geb

February 12, 2013 by

This post focuses on the technical side of automated acceptance tests for web applications. There are a lot of high-level frameworks, that allow definition of acceptance tests in natural language (Robot, JBehave, Cucumber, …). But when it comes to the technical implementation of the test cases, you are often forced to use the rather low-level WebDriver API directly.

Geb addresses exactly this problem. It is an abstraction of the WebDriver API and combines the expressive and concise Groovy language with a jQuery-like selection and traversal API. This makes the test implementation easier and the code more readable. On top of that, you get support for the page object pattern, asynchronous content lookup and a very good integration in existing test frameworks.
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Michael Lex

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Writing lightweight REST integration tests with the Jersey Test Framework

May 4, 2012 by

Writing REST services with JAX-RS (and its reference implementation Jersey) is easy. A class annotated with @Path and some methods with @GET, @POST, … annotations is enough for a fully functional REST service. Real world applications however are more complex. There are request-filters for authorization and access control, context providers for injecting data-access-objects, mappers that convert exceptions to appropriate HTTP responses, MessageBodyReaders and -Writers to convert JSON and XML to and from Java objects, and so on.
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Michael Lex

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