JUnit


JUnit, originally written by Erich Gamma (Gang of Four, Design Patterns book) and Kent Beck (also author of Extreme Programming), is an open source Java testing framework commonly used for unit testing of Java code. It can be downloaded from the junit.org website; this website provides not only setup instructions, but also articles on unit testing and many benefits to writing tests first.

Test-driven development (TDD), a term coined by Kent Beck, can enable better code design, cleaner code (fewer print/debug statements and test scripts), and more efficient code. Because we will follow this approach by writing tests first in this book, it makes sense to cover JUnit directly after JDK and Ant sections.

JUnit Standalone Runners

For setting up JUnit, again I will refer you to the installation instructions found on the product's website, junit.org. The JUnit test runner (Java main class) comes in two flavors: a textual version and a graphical version. The graphical version is available in two variations, a Java Swing-based one (recommended) and an older, AWT-based one.

After you have JUnit set up correctly, you should be able to type the following command (from the JUnit install directory; for example, C:\junit3.8.1) and be able to run the Swing version of JUnit's user interface, shown in Figure 4.5:

java -cp junit.jar junit.swingui. TestRunner


Figure 4.5. The JUnit Swing-based test runner.


JUnit in Eclipse SDK

In the next chapters, we will continue to use the standalone JUnit test runners for working with JUnit, described here. However, when I introduce Eclipse later in the book, we will switch to using JUnit within Eclipse (shown in Figure 4.6), which makes running and debugging JUnit tests much more convenient. However, there might be times when you want to run batch tests using the Ant junit task on a server or even test a single class outside of the IDE, using one of the JUnit built-in runners.

Figure 4.6. The JUnit view in Eclipse.




Agile Java Development with Spring, Hibernate and Eclipse
Agile Java Development with Spring, Hibernate and Eclipse
ISBN: 0672328968
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2006
Pages: 219

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