QuickTip: JUnit: The input type of the launch configuration does not exist

If you are getting the above error message in Eclipse IDE, while running your test case, just make sure that you have the test class as a part of the “eclipse source folder” definition.

Easiest way. Right click on the folder –> Build Path –>Use as source folder

Done.

Remote Debugging | Fitnesse with Eclipse

We use Fitnesse as the acceptance testing tool for our projects. Many a times it becomes a necessity to remotely debug how the fitnesse fixture is running through your code.

This blog would try to explain how you can easily set up a remote debugging session between Fitnesse and Eclipse so that you can debug through the code as your fixture is being executed.

In your Eclipse IDE

1. Goto Run->Open Debug Dialog

2. Right click on Remote Java Application option in the left hand menu tree and say new

3. Create a remote java application debug configuration like this

DBUNIT : Extracting Test Data into XML file

Many times you need sample data to be used as the set up data for your test cases. An easy way to extract data from a database into an XML file is as follows
The code sample below is mentioned for Postgres database however can be used for any database.

DBUNIT, HSQLDB, data type (16, ‘BOOLEAN’) not recognized and will be ignored. See FAQ for more information.

We are using HSQLDB (1.8.0.1) as the in memory database for our DBUNIT (2.1) test cases. Suddenly when trying to insert from our XML datafile to a boolean field we started getting an error which said

WARNING - APP_USER.ACCOUNT_EXPIRED data type (16, ‘BOOLEAN’) not recognized and will be ignored. See FAQ for more information.

It looks like the SQL type Types.BOOLEAN is not handled correctly. The way around is that

• Create a new data type factory that extends the DBUnit class DefaultDataTypeFactory like this