How to test my servlet using JUnit

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I have created a web system using Java Servlets and now want to make JUnit testing. My dataManager is just a basic piece of code that submits it to the database. How would you test a Servlet with JUnit?

My code example that allows a user to register/sign up, which is submitted from my main page via AJAX:

public void doPost(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) 
         throws ServletException, IOException{

    // Get parameters
    String userName = request.getParameter("username");
    String password = request.getParameter("password");
    String name = request.getParameter("name");

    try {

        // Load the database driver
        Class.forName("com.mysql.jdbc.Driver");

        //pass reg details to datamanager       
        dataManager = new DataManager();
        //store result as string
        String result = dataManager.register(userName, password, name);

        //set response to html + no cache
        response.setContentType("text/html");
        response.setHeader("Cache-Control", "no-cache");
        //send response with register result
        response.getWriter().write(result);

    } catch(Exception e){
        System.out.println("Exception is :" + e);
    }  
}

Edit Report

Updated Feb 2018: OpenBrace Limited has closed down, and its ObMimic product is no longer supported.

Here's another alternative, using OpenBrace's ObMimic library of Servlet API test-doubles (disclosure: I'm its developer).

package com.openbrace.experiments.examplecode.stackoverflow5434419;

import static org.junit.Assert.*;
import com.openbrace.experiments.examplecode.stackoverflow5434419.YourServlet;
import com.openbrace.obmimic.mimic.servlet.ServletConfigMimic;
import com.openbrace.obmimic.mimic.servlet.http.HttpServletRequestMimic;
import com.openbrace.obmimic.mimic.servlet.http.HttpServletResponseMimic;
import com.openbrace.obmimic.substate.servlet.RequestParameters;
import org.junit.Before;
import org.junit.Test;
import javax.servlet.ServletException;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;
import java.io.IOException;

/**
 * Example tests for {@link YourServlet#doPost(HttpServletRequest,
 * HttpServletResponse)}.
 *
 * @author Mike Kaufman, OpenBrace Limited
 */
public class YourServletTest {

    /** The servlet to be tested by this instance's test. */
    private YourServlet servlet;

    /** The "mimic" request to be used in this instance's test. */
    private HttpServletRequestMimic request;

    /** The "mimic" response to be used in this instance's test. */
    private HttpServletResponseMimic response;

    /**
     * Create an initialized servlet and a request and response for this
     * instance's test.
     *
     * @throws ServletException if the servlet's init method throws such an
     *     exception.
     */
    @Before
    public void setUp() throws ServletException {
        /*
         * Note that for the simple servlet and tests involved:
         * - We don't need anything particular in the servlet's ServletConfig.


                        
                        
                            answered 2013-06-29T15:22:11.610

How to test my servlet using JUnit

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