Ted Naleid

Creating maintainable test data is hard.

Often an entire object graph needs to be created to support the instantiation of a single domain object. This leads to either the cutting and pasting of that creation code, or relying on a canned set of objects that we’ve grown over time and maintained as the domain objects change. After a while, adding just one more Widget to that set of canned data ends up breaking tests just about every time.

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Groovy 1.6.1 was released today, and it includes a patch I submitted a few weeks ago to make working with regular expressions much more groovy. Thanks to everyone that voted for the patch in the Groovy JIRA.

The main functionality is the addition of a variety of find and findAll regular expression aware methods that have been added to string.
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