I had the pleasure to attend the meeting where it was announced to us MySQLers that Sun would buy our company. I brought my video camera to Orlando for certain events there, so I was able to take a movie from Jonathan Schwartz' welcome speech. After getting the proper permissions for publishing that video (after all it was an internal meeting of MySQL) I put it on Youtube.
Since Youtube videos are low resolution and my camera can do much better than that I also uploaded a 720p video to my homepage (actually, the video is 1080i, but I used a scale-down to 720p for Youtube). You can download it here (mp4, 3:40 min, 41 MB).
When I wrote the first part of this mini article series I left open a few things, mainly the Apache Tiles setup. In the meantime this problem also has been solved and I'm now able to give you nice little Java class, which contains everything that is necessary for Action Unit Testing with Apache Struts and Tiles.
When writing webapplications you should, as you also would for any other project, test your code that it works as expected. In our project we are using Tomcat 5.5, Apache struts 2.0.6 and Apache tiles 2.0.1. and I was given the task to write unit tests for our action classes. Testing Actions is a bit more difficult than ordinary classes as they are usually surrounded by a web container which handles them. There is a struts FAQ explaining the principles of struts testing. However you cannot use that example as it is and it leaves out a few important things. So, I started by taking a good part of the code from this how-to (Arsenalist) and continued from there. Here is how I managed to get it rolling.
Being in the software industry for more than 10 years I have seen quite some ways to develop software products. In the past years some new approaches emerged (agile development, extreme programming, test driven development) from older models (usually a kind of waterfall model), but I never heard of Asshole Driven Development, until today. Read the berkun blog and have a good lough.
