Testing in an Embeddable EJB Container
Jonathan Wetherbee, Chirag Rathod, Raghu Kodali, Peter Zadrozny · Apress eBooks · 2013
As with all mission-critical software, EJB components must be well tested before they are deployed into a production environment. The finest level of granularity in an EJB is its method; so proper unit tests must test each method of each EJB in isolation. For stateless Session beans, this is typically sufficient. Because a stateful Session bean may also contain state, full coverage additionally requires inclusion of more coarse-grained scenarios as well, involving sequences of method calls. When a stateless Session bean effectively stores “state” information in a database, as through JPA entities, multistep test scenarios are generally also required. In this chapter, we will look at both single-method and multi-method tests, covering stateless and stateful Session beans serving primarily as service interfaces for JPA-based operations.