So you finally got yourself writing a test against a database. In the test, you have to verify that a row in the table is correct, so you write:
assertEquals (
"2008-09-16-13.50.18.000000;;;;1;2008-08-07;2008-08-07;JUNIT;2008-09-16;t0001;001;;Doe;Jane;;Street;2;Doe Jane;;;;;X;2575;John;;;;US;E;;01;;;;125;01425;0;Shop;;;DOE;JANE;JOHN;032;1;;0001010301;;;;",
dumpRow(key));
and it sucks. Yeah, junit will notify you when something in that row is wrong and if you have a cool IDE, you can even compare the fields … but it still sucks. If one of the fields in the middle change, you have to scroll and eyeball-diff, wasting your time. The solution is pretty simple:
assertEquals (
"2008-09-16-13.50.18.000000\n"
+ "\n"
+ "\n"
+ "\n"
+ "1\n"
+ "2008-08-07\n"
+ "2008-08-07\n"
+ "JUNIT\n"
+ "2008-09-16\n"
...
dumpRow(key).replaceAll(";", "\n");
Instead of dumping the data in a single long string, split it into lines so you can compare fields side by side and without scrolling sideways.
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