How to deal with the test data in Junit?

Question

In TDD(Test Driven Development) development process, how to deal with the test data? Assumption that a scenario, parse a log file to get the needed column. For a strong test

Answer 1

Another option is to mock out your data, eliminating any dependency on external sources. This way it's easy to test various data conditions without having to have multiple instances of external test data. I then generally use full-fledged integration tests for lightweight smoke testing.