Creating unit test cases

Maven projects follow certain conventions; the entire application source in a Maven project is in the src/main/java folder, and unit tests are expected to be in the src/test/java folder. In fact, when you create a Maven project in Eclipse, it creates the src/test/java folder for you. We are going to create our test cases in this folder. We are going to create the same package structure for the test classes as that for the application source; that is, to test the packt.book.jee.eclipse.ch5.bean.Course class, we will create the packt.book.jee.eclipse.ch5.bean package under the src/test/java folder and then create a JUnit test class called CourseTest, as follows:

  1. Right-click on the src/test/java folder in Package Explorer ...

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