Pragmatic Unit Testing in Java 8 with JUnit

Chapter 4Organizing Your Tests

Prior chapters have given you enough unit-testing fodder to hit the ground running. The problem with hitting the ground running, however, is that you’re leaping into a new, unfamiliar environment, and you’re liable to make a few wrong turns or even hurt yourself in the process.

Better that you take a few minutes to pick up a few pointers on what you’re getting into. This chapter introduces a few JUnit features as part of showing you how to best organize and structure your tests.

Some of the topics you’ll read about include:

• How to make your tests visually consistent using arrange-act-assert

• Keeping tests maintainable by testing behavior, not methods

• The importance of test naming

• Using @Before and @After for common ...