The Object Oriented paradigm is influenced by the design by contract principal, wherein, the creator and the consumer mutually agree to follow certain rules. The design by contract theory states that ...

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Assertions have been in the software engineering canon for many years, most notably as the centerpiece of the Design by Contract facility that Bertrand Meyer built into his Eiffel programming language ...

Assertions are a fairly simple construct added to the soon-to-be released J2SE (Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition) 1.4. As a basic description, an assertion specifies a boolean-typed expression a ...

I want to improve my tests, in a way, to test response, but not just response code but further more to test content of the response. Response is XML, and I've added XMLAssertion and XPath assertion.

AssertJ provides a rich and intuitive set of strongly-typed assertions to use for unit testing (with JUnit, TestNG or any other test framework). AssertJ's ambition is to provide a rich and intuitive ...

Abstract: Context. Tests are becoming more and more central to the development process, so that their comprehensibility is of paramount importance. In particular, assertions, which express the test ...