In part 2 of this mini-series I showed a flow that retrieves an RSS feed periodically, splits it and sends each RSS entry via email. In this part I’d like to show how to split up the flow a bit in order to enable unit testing.
To refresh your memory here’s what the flow currently looks like:
Testing this flow is hard if not impossible for a number of reasons:
Why are GUI integration tests needed? On which testing tool technology should I base my tests? What are the cost/benefit of the choosing one over the other? In this brief article we will give you a quick look at the answers to those questions.