Junit 4.x version of AbstractTransactionalDataSourceSpringContextTests [SPR-2540]

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Alan Stewart (personal account) opened SPR-2540 and commented

Currently org.springframework.test.AbstractTransactionalDataSourceSpringContextTests is in the inheritance hierachy that descends from the Junit 3.8.1 junit.framework.TestCase class. I would like to see a version that is compatible with Junit 4.x with a view to writing test cases with Junit's annotations but still allow rollback after the test completes.

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Issue Links:

• Junit4 support [SPR-3104] #7791 Junit4 support ("depends on")

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Marcin Zduniak commented

I am also very interested in this feature. Is this maybe planned for the next release (2.0.1, 2.0.2 ?)

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Marcin Zduniak / http://zduniak.com

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Santiago Valdarrama commented

I create a project to maintain a set of JUnit 4 extensions to test spring code. You can see some information or download binaries or the complete source code from http://code.google.com/p/gienah-testing/. Please, feel free to send your feedback in order to make the project grow.

Maybe Spring developers could take a look to the project to include a similar behavior in future spring releases.

To see a little tutorial of gienah-testing project, go to http://groups.google.com/group/gienah-testing/web/project-5-minutes-tutorial

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Taras Tielkes commented

It would be nice if the mode of injection (private fields or regular setters) was specified with some annotation parameter, instead of calling a superclass method.

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Sam Brannen commented

In Spring 2.1 M4 we are introducing the new "Spring TestContext Framework"
which provides annotation-driven unit and integration testing support that
is agnostic of the actual testing framework in use. The same techniques and
annotation-based configuration used in, for example, a JUnit 3.8 environment
can also be applied to tests written with JUnit 4.4, TestNG, etc.

In addition to providing generic and extensible testing infrastructure, the
Spring TestContext Framework provides out-of-the-box support for Spring-specific
integration testing functionality such as context management and caching,
dependency injection of test fixtures, and transactional test management with
default rollback semantics.

To discover how this new testing support can assist you with writing unit and
integration tests, consult the "Spring TestContext Framework" section of the
revised testing chapter in the Spring reference manual.

I encourage everyone to take a look at the examples and give the new testing
support a try with either JUnit 3.8 or JUnit 4.4. Let me know if you run
into any issues or have any ideas for improvement.

Thanks,

Sam

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Sam Brannen commented

Hi Taras,

It would be nice if the mode of injection (private fields or regular setters) was
specified with some annotation parameter, instead of calling a superclass method.

That is a very good point, and that is in fact how the Spring TestContext Framework
supports dependency injection of test fixtures. You can choose between @Autowired
and @Resource for both field and setter injection in your test classes.