Tuesday 27 December 2011

JSF: mocking FacesContext for unit tests

Referencing the FacesContext directly in Java classes makes managed beans more difficult to unit test. This post discusses how to mock the context for testing outside the application container.

These examples use Mockito with JUnit. Familiarity with JSF and unit testing Java is assumed.

I've used the javax.faces.bean annotations but the techniques apply for other bean management mechanisms (e.g. using faces-config.xml or Spring).