测试hibernate Model / DAO类

Question

I am currently working on a project with a rather complex data model, a lot of relationships, optional, mandatory etc. We want to test our models and daos, but we are weary of writing all the tests manually. The biggest problem actually is filling the model objects to be tested with sample data. For a simple model this is easy, sure, but the problem comes in when you have a lot of mandatory relationships and thus need to setup a big object graph for each test.

Does any one know any tools or frameworks that simplify testing hibernate models/dao's?

Thanks!

Answer 1

Take a look at http://code.google.com/p/template4/ . It allows generating hibernate data using patterns.

Answer 2

I have always created the data in the DB first using SQL scripts rather than creating the data programmatically using Hibernate. The SQL file contains just a bunch of insert statement that get executed against an embedded DB. Using the H2 db, my driver URL is the following:

jdbc:h2:mem:;MODE=Oracle;INIT=RUNSCRIPT FROM 'test/conf/createDb.sql'

This automagically creates a new DB and populates the db with test data against which I write me dao test cases.