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JUnit in Action, Second Edition
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JUnit in Action, Second Edition

by Felipe Leme
June 2010
Intermediate to advanced
504 pages
15h 44m
English
Manning Publications
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Appendix A. Differences between JUnit 3 and JUnit 4

This appendix covers

  • Changes between version 3.x and 4.x of JUnit
  • API changes
  • New features in JUnit 4.x

As you’ve probably seen, the new 4.x version of JUnit is a completely new framework. It’s more of a totally new project than a bug-fixing improvement of the old one. But it still deals with unit testing your Java code. That said, we will try to define all the differences between the latest version of JUnit and the 3.x version.

A.1. Global changes

This section discusses the changes in the requirements for using JUnit.

A.1.1. JDK required

JUnit 4 uses a lot from Java 5 annotations, generics, and static import features. Although the JUnit 3.x version can work with JDK 1.2+, this usage ...

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