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Effective Unit Testing
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Effective Unit Testing

by Lasse Koskela
February 2013
Intermediate to advanced
258 pages
7h 26m
English
Manning Publications
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Chapter 8. Writing tests in other JVM languages

 

In this chapter
  • Using multiple programming languages on the JVM
  • Achieving conciseness in test code with a dynamic language
  • Added expressiveness with behavior-driven development frameworks

 

Programming is about expressing your ideas and intent in a language understood by a computer. For a Java programmer, that means writing code in a language that the Java compiler can compile into bytecode to be run on the JVM. More than one programming language can be used for writing code to be run on the JVM, though.

Each alternative JVM language has its distinct syntax and feel but all have something in common: they claim to be more concise and more expressive than Java for creating ...

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