JUnit Recipes

Preface

If you have ever met me, either online or in person, then perhaps you have heard me tell this story.

I was working on a large project at the IBM labs in Toronto. It was in the middle of the year 2000, long after the Y2K craze had ended, and I had spent nearly three months working on a component scheduled for delivery in about one month. The defects were coming in steadily from our testing department, and each fix was just another patch on top of an increasingly disgusting Big Ball of Mud. It was around that time that I read a draft of Extreme Programming Installed, by Ron Jeffries, Ann Anderson, and Chet Hendrickson. With the help of the Internet, this draft led me to www.junit.org, where I learned about this great new tool for testing ...