Is easyb Easy?

I was introduced to easyb by none other than the creator of easyb: Andrew Glover. In spite of hearing and reading a lot about easyb from Andy, I never had a chance to actually work on easyb. So, I spent a couple of hours last weekend to dig deep into this framework and to see if easyb was any easy at all.

easyb is a BDD framework for the Java platform. If you have no clue what BDD is, here is a quote from the easyb web site:

Behavior driven development (or BDD) isn't anything new or revolutionary-- it's just an evolutionary offshoot of test driven development, in which the word test is replaced by the word should. Semantics aside, a lot of people have found that the concept of should is a much more natural development driver than the concept of testing. In fact, when you think in terms of behavior (i.e. shoulds) you'll find that writing specifications is easier to do first, which is the intent of test driven development in the first place.

With easyb you express your story and specification using Groovy based domain specific language(DSL). You can use easyb for both Java and Groovy applications.

What is a story? A story can contain any number of scenarios. Each scenario has:

    * Given (a context)
    * When (something happens)
    * Then (something else happens)

I am using a simple login application which was written in both Spring 2.5 and EJB 3.0. In order to test the login functionality, we can write three simple scenarios here:

• User enters valid credentials.

• User enters invalid credentials.

• Invalid login with a null password.

Let me list the Business interfaces and my Domain Class here:
 

1. AccountService

package com.stelligent.easyb.samples.service;

import com.stelligent.easyb.samples.domain.Account;
/**
 *
 * @author msubbarao
 */

public interface AccountService {
	
	public Account createAccount(Account info);
	
	public Account findAccount(String userid);
	

}

2. LoginService

package com.stelligent.easyb.samples.service;

import com.stelligent.easyb.samples.domain.Account;
import com.stelligent.easyb.samples.exception.BusinessException;
/**
 *
 * @author msubbarao
 */

public interface LoginService {

	public Account login(String userid, String password) throws BusinessException;

}

3. Account domain class:

package com.stelligent.easyb.samples.domain;

import java.io.Serializable;

/**
 *
 * @author msubbarao
 */
public class Account implements Serializable {
 
    private String userid;
 
    private String email;
 
    private String firstname;
 
    private String lastname;
    
    private String password;
 


    public Account() {
    }

    public Account(String userid, String email, String firstname, String lastname, String password) {
        this.userid = userid;
        this.email = email;
        this.firstname = firstname;
        this.lastname = lastname;
        this.password = password;
 
    }

    public String getUserid() {
        return userid;
    }

    public void setUserid(String userid) {
        this.userid = userid;
    }

   ......
}