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JMUnit: simple and good enough

Erik Starck — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 17:34:26 +0000

I ended up using JMUnit for my mobile java project. The Sony Ericsson jUnit tool is great when you have to run the tests from a PC on a real device or from a “real” jUnit application. It’s a more advanced tool, but for my needs at the moment, it’s a bit overkill.

So I ended up with what can only be described as the direct opposite: JMUnit is extremey simple. If I change my mind in the future, converting the test cases to jUnit shouldn’t be too difficult.

Unit testing java mobile

Erik Starck — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 08:01:19 +0000

I used to work for Sony Ericsson and my first job for the company was developing the J2ME SDK. The last thing I did as a developer was initiating the Mobile jUnit development (another guy finished it, though, and he should get the credit for it becoming a great tool.)

This was a couple of years ago and now when I am in the need for a unit testing framework for Java ME it seems not much has happened. There seems to be basically three options and none of them seems very actively developed. I wonder why.

Using iMacros for testing

Erik Starck — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 08:34:27 +0000

I’ll try using the iMacros Firefox plugin for testing a web service I’m developing. Will get back on how good it works.

Speaking of Firefox plugins, Firebug is a must have if you’re doing web development.

Updated: a quick test and comparison to Selenium makes the latter the winner for testing.

Subversion and dav using https: Method PROPFIND is not defined

Erik Starck — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:15:35 +0000

The following error message can occur when trying to use subversion on an apache2 server over https and dav:

501 Method PROPFIND is not defined in RFC 2068 and is not supported by the Servlet API.

The error message is quite misleading. It can be caused by a simple misspelling of the server. In my case I tried to connect to zyx.server.com when the actual address was xyz.server.com.