Testing and debugging
In the world of Test Driven Development (TDD), writing tests is part and parcel of the development process. I don't want to bore you with why testing is important!
Let us just say that all the advantages of TDD hold true for JIRA plugin development as well. And if you are wondering what exactly TDD is, start at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test-driven_development.
In this recipe, we will see the various commands for running unit tests and integration tests in JIRA plugins.
Getting ready
Make sure you have the plugin development environment set up and that you have created the skeleton plugin.
You might have noticed that there are two sample test files, one each for unit tests and integration tests, created under the src/test/java/ut/ ...
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