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Junit Recipes: Practical Methods for Programmer Testing [Paperback]

J. B. Rainsberger
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12 Aug 2004

When testing becomes a developer's habit good things tend to happen--good productivity, good code, and good job satisfaction. If you want some of that, there's no better way to start your testing habit, nor to continue feeding it, than with JUnit Recipes. In this book you will find one hundred and thirty seven solutions to a range of problems, from simple to complex, selected for you by an experienced developer and master tester. Each recipe follows the same organization giving you the problem and its background before discussing your options in solving it.

JUnit—the unit testing framework for Java—is simple to use, but some code can be tricky to test. When you're facing such code you will be glad to have this book. It is a how-to reference full of practical advice on all issues of testing, from how to name your test case classes to how to test complicated J2EE applications. Its valuable advice includes side matters that can have a big payoff, like how to organize your test data or how to manage expensive test resources.


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  • Paperback: 720 pages
  • Publisher: Manning Publications; 1 edition (12 Aug 2004)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1932394230
  • ISBN-13: 978-1932394238
  • Product Dimensions: 19.8 x 4 x 23.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 409,876 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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J. B. Rainsberger is a developer and consultant who has been a leader in the JUnit community since 2001. His popular online tutorial "JUnit: A Starter Guide" is read by thousands of new JUnit users each month. Joe lives in Toronto, Canada.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent team reference 7 Oct 2004
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I found this book very readable and am looking forward to try out some of the recipes on my current project. The book does not attempt to teach Test-Driven Development instead it focuses purely on testing patterns - different ways to apply JUnit to object and system testing - including examples of how to use JUnit extensions and specialised assertions from other XUnit projects, such as XmlUnit. The book contains many patterns that will be familiar to TDD practitioners and so will be a handy reference book for teams using JUnit.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A wonderful compendium of JUnit tips and tricks 6 Aug 2004
By Michael Cohn - Published on Amazon.com
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J. B. Rainsberger's JUnit Recipes is a wonderful compendium of tips and tricks that can quickly take anyone from novice to expert at JUnit. The organization of the book should make it appealing to unit-testing programmers of all levels. Early chapters are highly introductory, covering the installation and first uses of JUnit. Later chapters cover testing of JDBC, Enterprise Java Beans, XML, and more.

JUnit Recipes includes the best discussions I've read on how to test database applications and on the complicated art of managing test data. This is probably not a book you will read every chapter of. In my programming, for example, I don't use EJB so I only skimmed that chapter. But at over 700 pages is much more of an encyclopedia of wonderful testing techniques than a book that is meant to be read cover to cover. As its title implies, JUnit Recipes is a cookbook of ideas that will allow you to serve up better, and better-tested, applications.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Put this next to Knuth and The Gang of Four on your bookshelf 30 Dec 2005
By Jason R. Tibbetts - Published on Amazon.com
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This isn't necessarily the best introduction for absolute beginners (I would recommend /Pragmatic Unit Testing/ for that), but it is required reading for server-side Java, as most other reviewers have pointed out. But it's more than that--it's one of those rare computer books that transcends its subject matter. Why? Because it can make you a better programmer. While some of the credit can rightly be given to unit testing and Test-Driven Development in general, Rainsberger's book makes you /see/ better ways to write and refactor your code. The breadth and depth of examples is astonishing--he convincingly shatters "but it's too hard to test that" arguments with well-researched, non-trivial examples. In fact, I'd say that this is almost a better J2EE tutorial than most books about J2EE proper.

I'm withholding a star for one reason: the book doesn't cover GUI testing tools like Jemmy, JFCUnit, or Abbot/Costello. These JUnit extensions are ripe for a book with this depth; it's just too bad that this couldn't be that book. Other than that, I find that I turn to Rainsberger's book far more often than any other testing book or online reference.
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2.0 out of 5 stars Uses JUnit 3.8 - dated material 31 May 2009
By grandpiano_57 - Published on Amazon.com
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This is a good book. It was very important when it came out. It is dated however and we need a new book on the subject since JUnit is up to version 4.6 as of this writing. Following examples from this book from the start you would want JUnit 3.8 to avoid the confusion. Then you would have to learn the differences between 3.8 and 4.6 which are substantial. Where have all the programmers gone? Books use to be up to date, now we are stuck with many 5 year old books with reviews from 2004. This does not keep programmers informed and secure in their jobs. Time for a new updated edition on this one to make it truly useful.
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