Quality Code: Software Testing Principles, Practices, and Patterns

Retrospective

WebRetriever has reached a functional state with a couple of extra perks over its more mature predecessor curl, at least for the implemented features. It can default a scheme, and it automatically follows HTTP-based redirects. The latter could be seen as a liability if you want to use it to diagnose redirect behaviors, but for most content purposes it helps. As I left it, it works as developed if you do the Maven build and invoke it as a JAR.

Its functionality falls short of curl by a long shot, but as a demonstration of testing techniques that would get tedious. I have tested a few error conditions, but many remain.

From a software design perspective, it went through some fairly ugly and chaotic intermediate forms, but it is shaping ...