Quality Code: Software Testing Principles, Practices, and Patterns

Bootstrapping

A purely test-driven project starts with a test. However, creating the repo in GitHub creates a README.md if you want it to be able to clone it. This is a good opportunity to write the spec for the project, or at least the initial spec, so I wrote that first.

Next, I used Maven’s archetype generation to set up the structure of the project. I chose an archetype that generated a project for Java-executable JARs, which generated the main class and its test class. As discussed in Chapter 6, I started with the constructor. I did not have an immediate need for attributes, so as the full recipe for bootstrapping the constructor did not apply, I squeezed a simple default construction test [445f41f] between various project setup commits. ...