Debugging, Refactoring & Testing

(Chapter 22 – Section 1)

Initially in a development cycle, many developers will focus on producing software that does the job. Hands down coding, quick development/deployment round trips in their local environment. At some point, when the code seems to be working, there will be more room for quality aspects such as naming conventions, project structure, adherence to quality standards and an inspection of less trivial and non-happy flows through the software. Of course attention to these aspects should not be left to a late stage – but to some extent it typically does happen. SOA Suite provides a number of facilities in JDeveloper that are very useful for these activities: the integrated debugger, various refactoring options, SOA composite test suites and the audit framework.

This section describes how to work with these facilities.