Introduction to Testing in Java

By Richard Warburton
The easiest and most pleasant way to get started with unit testing, JUnit, and Test Driven Development (TDD) that you could imagine.
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(558)
Level
Beginner
Updated
May 11, 2015
Duration
3h 53m
Table of contents
Introduction
Introduction - Why Automate Testing? 6m The Testing Hierarchy 6m Course Outline & Summary 4m
Testing Code
Writing Test Code 4m Writing Your First Test 9m Running Tests on the Command Line 4m The Common Structure of Tests 5m The Common Structure of Tests in Code 5m Exception, Failures, and Errors 6m Exception, Failures, and Errors in Codew 4m Summary 1m
Writing Good Tests
Good Tests 4m Good Practices 10m Behavior Not Implementation 7m Diagnostics 5m Live Coding 5m Before & After 2m Before & After (Live Coding) 4m Hamcrest 3m Hamcrest (Live Coding) 8m Summary 1m
Introducing Test Driven Development
Why TDD? 5m What Is TDD? 3m What Is TDD? (Live Coding) 11m Triangulation 4m Triangulation (Live Coding) 18m Summary & Variants 3m
Dependencies
Dependencies 5m Dependency Injection 3m Dependency Injection (Live Coding) 6m Test Doubles 5m Test Doubles (Live Coding) 8m Summary 1m Appendix 1: Spring 6m Appendix 2: Guice 5m
Going Outside-in
Introduction 9m An Application Runner 3m The Sales Report 11m The Sales Analyzer 7m The Sales Repository 8m Outside-in Summary 6m Course Summary 3m
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Level
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Duration
3h 53m
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This course introduces why you want to write automated tests for your code and how to implement this in Java, covering fundamentals of how to write simple tests using JUnit and Hamcrest, through Test Driven Development (TDD) and then explains how to structure your code and design in order to make testing easier.

About the author
Richard Warburton
About the author

Software Engineer, Trainer, Author and Conference Speaker, interested in deep dive performance issues, PhD, Londoner.

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