Reports with TDD and Mock Objects: an Improvement in Unit Tests

摘要

The construction of reports in software engineering, although considered a simple task, is sometimes extremely difficult for the developer, especially if the report has a rich amount of detail and web software as a backdrop. This article will show how you can reduce the stress of developers using agile methodologies, such as Test Driven Development (TDD) associated with Mock Objects. Software testing is gaining the attention of software scholars because of the huge impact on the quality they produce and of the reduced delivery time. This study was driven by a shortage of literature and comes, as appropriate, to demonstrate how it is possible to reduce the drudgery of creating reports using open source tools like Jaspersoft and their implementers, such as IReport, along with the Eclipse IDE. The study was based on experiments carried out in the Brazilian Army's Performance Management Project, with a team of professionals who used mock objects to save time and improve performance gain speed and which also used performance in conducting their work and also the TDD Methodology as the main reference. From the results, empirical observation showed us the best and worst aspects encountered by participants during their work.