Chapter 13. Testing and Debugging
Introduction
You can write the coolest Struts applications in the world, but if
you don’t know how to test them, or you
can’t seem to debug them, you might as well not have
written them in the first place. Testing and debugging web
applications can be a frustrating experience. If you test your
application by deploying it to your application server and
“banging on it,” then the recipes
in this chapter will provide some techniques that are worth learning.
If your only approach to debugging involves sticking
System.out.println( )
in places where you
think the problem might be, then
you’ll definitely want to check out some of these
solutions.
The key to debugging an application is visibility; the more information you have about the internal workings of the application, the easier it can be to pinpoint the problem. The chapter has solutions that show you how to monitor what your application is doing. This first half of this chapter presents some solutions related to logging and debugging that will help you understand what’s going on inside your application.
The heart of testing and debugging is the unit test. A unit test verifies that a specific portion of your application does what it is supposed to do. Java developers commonly think of the “unit” as a Java class. But the unit can be anything as long as it can be identified by discrete boundaries and isolated from code external to the unit. This chapter has two recipes that show you how to unit test ...
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