JUnit in Action, Second Edition

When JUnit was first introduced a decade ago by Kent Beck and Erich Gamma, the Agile movement was in its infancy, "Test Driven Development" was unknown, and unit testing was just starting to move into the typical developer's vocabulary. Today, most developers acknowledge the benefits of unit testing and rely on the increasingly sophisticated tools now available. The recently released JUnit 4.5 represents the state of the art in unit testing frameworks, and provides significant new features to improve the Java development process. JUnit in Action, Second Edition is an up-to-date guide to unit testing Java applications (including Java EE applications) using the JUnit framework and its extensions. This book provides techniques for solving real-world problems such as testing AJAX applications, using mocks to achieve testing isolation, in-container testing for Java EE and database applications, and test automation. Written to help readers exploit JUnit 4.5, the book covers recent innovations such as the new annotations that simplify test writing, improved exception handling, and the new assertion methods. You'll also discover how to use JUnit extensions to test new application styles and frameworks including Ajax, OSGi, and HTML-based presentation layers. Using a sample-driven approach, various unit testing strategies are covered, such as how to unit test EJBs, database applications, and web applications. Also addressed are testing strategies using freely available open source frameworks and tools, and how to unit test in isolation with Mock Objects. The book will also bring you up to speed on the latest thinking in TDD, BDD, Continuous Integration, and other practices related to unit testing. Purchase of the print book comes with an offer of a free PDF, ePub, and Kindle eBook from Manning. Also available is all code from the book. front matter......Page 1 brief contents......Page 8 contents......Page 10 preface......Page 20 preface to the first edition......Page 22 acknowledgments......Page 24 about this book......Page 26 about the authors......Page 31 about the cover illustration......Page 33 Part 1 - JUnit essentials......Page 36 1 - JUnit jump-start......Page 38 2 - Exploring core JUnit......Page 49 3 - Mastering JUnit......Page 60 4 - Software testing principles......Page 88 Part 2 - Different testing strategies......Page 100 5 - Test coverage anddevelopment......Page 102 6 - Coarse-grained testingwith stubs......Page 119 7 - Testing with mock objects......Page 134 8 - In-container testing......Page 161 Part 3 - JUnit and the build process......Page 170 9 - Running JUnit testsfrom Ant......Page 172 10 - Running JUnit testsfrom Maven2......Page 187 11 - Continuousintegration tools......Page 204 Part 4 - JUnit extensions......Page 222 12 - Presentation-layer testing......Page 224 13 - Ajax testing......Page 259 14 - Server-side Javatesting with Cactus......Page 294 15 - Testing JSF applications......Page 327 16 - Testing OSGi components......Page 345 17 - Testing database access......Page 361 18 - Testing JPA-basedapplications......Page 395 19 - JUnit on steroids......Page 424 appendix A: Differences betweenJUnit 3 and JUnit 4......Page 448 appendix B: Extending the JUnitAPI with customrunners and matchers......Page 459 appendix C: The source code forthe book......Page 473 appendix D: JUnit IDE integration......Page 477 appendix E: Installing software......Page 487 index......Page 492 "JUnit in Action, Second Edition is an up-to-date guide to unit testing Java applications (including Java EE applications) using the JUnit framework and its extensions. This book provides techniques for solving real-world problems such as testing AJAX applications, using mocks to achieve testing isolation, in-container testing for Java EE and database applications, and test automation. Written to help readers exploit JUnit 4.5, the book covers recent innovations such as the new annotations that simplify test writing, improved exception handling, and the new assertion methods. You'll also discover how to use JUnit extensions to test new application styles and frameworks including Ajax, OSGi, and HTML-based presentation layers. Using a sample-driven approach, various unit testing strategies are covered, such as how to unit test EJBs, database applications, and web applications. Also addressed are testing strategies using freely available open source frameworks and tools, and how to unit test in isolation with Mock Objects. The book will also bring you up to speed on the latest thinking in TDD, BDD, Continuous Integration, and other practices related to unit testing"--Resource description page.