Testing Quartz CronTrigger trigger

Question

Assuming that I have a CronTriggerBean similar to

Answer 1

Well firstly, there's no point in testing CronTriggerBean itself. It's part of the spring framework, and has already been tested.

A better test might be to test that your cron expression is what you expect. One option here is to use Quartz's CronExpression class. Given a CronExpression object, you can call getNextValidTimeAfter(Date), which returns the next time after the given Date when the expression will fire.