JUnit Recipes: Practical Methods for Programmer Testing

Released July 2004

Publisher(s): Manning Publications

ISBN: 9781932394238

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Book description

When testing becomes a developer's habit good things tend to happen--good productivity, good code, and good job satisfaction. If you want some of that, there's no better way to start your testing habit, nor to continue feeding it, than with" JUnit Recipes," In this book you will find one hundred and thirty-seven solutions to a range of problems, from simple to complex, selected for you by an experienced developer and master tester. Each recipe follows the same organization giving you the problem and its background before discussing your options in solving it.
JUnit - the unit testing framework for Java - is simple to use, but some code can be tricky to test. When you're facing such code you will be glad to have this book. It is a how-to reference full of practical advice on all issues of testing, from how to name your test case classes to how to test complicated J2EE applications. Its valuable advice includes side matters that can have a big payoff, like how to organize your test data or how to manage expensive test resources.
What's Inside:
- Getting started with JUnit
- Recipes for:
servlets
JSPs
EJBs
Database code
much more
- Difficult-to-test designs, and how to fix them
- How testing saves time
- Choose a JUnit extension:
HTMLUnit
XMLUnit
ServletUnit
EasyMock
and more!