Pragmatic Unit Testing in Java 8 with JUnit

FIRST It Helps to Remember That Good Tests Are FIRST

You can avoid many of the pitfalls that unit testers often drop into by following the FIRST principles of unit testing:

• [F]ast

• [I]solated

• [R]epeatable

• [S]elf-validating

• [T]imely

The word first itself has significant meaning in the context of unit testing. Right now, you’re probably writing your code first, then writing unit tests after the fact. But, perhaps surprisingly, you can get different and better results if you write the unit tests before you write the corresponding code. A host of folks practice the discipline known as test-driven development (TDD). The sole delineation between plain ol’ unit testing (POUT) and TDD is that in TDD, the tests come first. Check out Chapter 12, ​Test-Driven ...