Pragmatic Unit Testing in Java 8 with JUnit

Part 3The Bigger Design Picture

Man and Woman cannot live by bread alone. Or by unit testing alone. Unit testing is just another part of a bigger picture that you can simply refer to as “design.” You want to ensure that your code’s design stays clean as you build your system, so you’ll learn about how the practice of refactoring is afforded by good unit tests. To refactor effectively, you in turn need to understand what a good, bigger design looks like. You’ll also discover that some things are hard to test, so you’ll read about mock objects and how they help isolate your tests from inevitable difficult dependencies. Finally, you want to ensure that your tests continue to return on value, so we’ll step through taking a difficult test and whittling ...