Testing with JUnit

Setting the table

This book is based on a hands-on example that will guide us through the essential concepts and programming techniques of unit testing. For a sustainable learning experience, feel encouraged to elaborate and complete the various code snippets in your own working environment. Hence, here comes a short introduction of the most important tools and the workspace organization used while programming the sample.

Choosing the ingredients

As the book's title implies, the main tool this is all about is JUnit (http://www.junit.org). It is probably the most popular testing framework for developers within the Java world. Its first version was written by Kent Beck and Eric Gamma on a flight from Zurich to OOPSLA 1997 in Atlanta, [FOWL06]. Since ...