Unit testing best practices

There are a lot of articles and blog posts written about unit testing best practices, patterns etc. Over the course of years after writing many varieties of unit test cases with and without mocking frameworks and reviewing many tests, there are few patterns that I have noticed many times again and again. For a change instead of writing about best practices I have compiled a list of testing bad practices to avoid.

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Unit testing with Junit

How can a developer guarantee that the beautiful code they wrote would work as intended? By running unit tests on that code. This is the short answer. Unit tests should be well designed, easy to read and understand and more importantly easy to maintain. Unit tests should test all possible

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Spring Boot Essentials

As you have seen so far, Spring boot takes care of a lot of the boiler plate configurations required to setup a Spring application that we would have to do otherwise and helps us to get to the application coding part asap.

To do that, Spring boot has 4 tricks up its sleeve that it uses to accomplish what it does.

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Spring Boot – Using log4j logging

Spring boot uses an opinionated approach for a lot of things, with logging being one. It uses Logback by default. While Logback is useful, some of you may want to use a different log library. What do you have to do to use log4j as the logger?

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