JUnit tests for POJOs

Question

I work on a project where we have to create unit tests for all of our simple beans (POJOs). Is there any point to creating a unit test for POJOs if all they consist of is gette

Answer 1

IMHO POJOs are automatically tested when logic for any functionality is tested, e.g. For testing any functions, we may need to inject/mock certain values, POJOs, and getter/setter for POJOs are indirectly tested.

However for the specific use-case to eliminate POJOs for unit-testing, it can be achieved following 2 ways:

1. USE LIBRARY: use existing libraries that help test POJOs. One such library I came across is meanbean.

   Ref: http://meanbean.sourceforge.net/

   Maven: http://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.meanbean/meanbean (current version: 2.0.3)

2. IGNORE POJOs: Sonar can be configured to exclude POJOs or specific packages to be excluded from unit-test coverage reports. Few examples below:

   
       
           **/domain/**/*,
           **/pojos/*