Drools testing with junit

Question

What is the best practice to test drools rules with junit?

Until now we used junit with dbunit to test rules. We had sample data that was put to hsqldb. We had couple of

Answer 1

Unit test is about taking minimum piece of code and test all possible usecases defining specification. With integration tests your goal is not all possible usecases but integration of several units that work together. Do the same with rules. Segregate rules by business meaning and purpose. Simplest 'unit under the test' could be file with single or high cohension set of rules and what is required for it to work (if any), like common dsl definition file and decision table. For integration test you could take meaningful subset or all rules of the system.

With this approach you'll have many isolated unit tests and few integration tests with limited amount of common input data to reproduce and test common scenarios. Adding new rules will not impact most of unit tests but few integration tests and will reflect how new rules impact common data flow.

Consider JUnit testing library that could be suitable for this approach