GRAILS Unit Testing

[Nitegoddess]

I am very new to GRAILS and I am trying to understand some code for unit testing. I haven't used unit testing before and I only know a little C# and php.

Could someone explain what assertEquals 1 is doing and what it is for?

Here is some example code I was using:

import grails.test.*

class BaseTests extends GrailsUnitTestCase {
protected void setUp() {
super.setUp()

mockDomain(Base)
}

protected void tearDown() {
super.tearDown()
}

void testConstraints() {

Base base = new Base(name: 'Standard', cost:5)
assertTrue base.validate()

base.name = ' '
assertFalse base.validate()

assertEquals 1, base.errors.errorCount
assertEquals 'blank', base.errors['name']

}
}

I just am having trouble understanding the last two lines of code and what they are doing. I can't find an explanation anywhere so any help is appreciated.

Thanks!

[keang]

I don't know GRAILS at all but I would guess that:

'assertEquals 1, base.errors.errorCount' is testing that base.errors.errorCount is equal to 1.

'assertEquals 'blank', base.errors['name']' is testing that base.errors['name'] is equal to 'blank'.

In both cases if the assert statement is not true the text case will fail and you will be given some indication of that - don't know how as I've never used it.