Oracle Visual Builder: Applications That Outlive Their First Release · Module 16 · Testing an application with no test framework
Testing without the other system
Lesson 158 of 176 · 3 min
The service IS NOT READY and the date IS NOT MOVING. STUBS AND RECORDED RESPONSES, and WHAT NEITHER OF THEM CAN TELL YOU. You will frequently have to build against a service that does not exist yet, and the ways of doing that are fine as long as you are honest about what they establish. A STUB IS SOMETHING YOU WROTE THAT RETURNS WHAT YOU EXPECT. It unblocks the work, it is instant, and it lets you build the whole page. And it is a statement of your own assumptions rather than of the service's behaviour — which is the whole limitation, and it is total. A RECORDED RESPONSE IS BETTER BECAUSE IT CAME FROM THE REAL SERVICE. The shape is right, the field names are right, the values are real. What it cannot do is fail, be slow, or change — so everything in Lesson 4 is untestable against…
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