JUnit Pocket Guide: Quick Look-up and Advice

Kent Beck

Sep 2004 · "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

About this ebook

JUnit, created by Kent Beck and Erich Gamma, is an open source framework for test-driven development in any Java-based code. JUnit automates unit testing and reduces the effort required to frequently test code while developing it.

While there are lots of bits of documentation all over the place, there isn't a go-to-manual that serves as a quick reference for JUnit. This Pocket Guide meets the need, bringing together all the bits of hard to remember information, syntax, and rules for working with JUnit, as well as delivering the insight and sage advice that can only come from a technology's creator.

Any programmer who has written, or is writing, Java Code will find this book valuable. Specifically it will appeal to programmers and developers of any level that use JUnit to do their unit testing in test-driven development under agile methodologies such as Extreme Programming (XP) [another Beck creation].

Ratings and reviews

It is a very good book on why to use junit and the basics of using it. However it is a little hard to read and there are not many useful examples of writing and running tests.

Some sound advise for developers on the value of using automated tests from one of Junit's creators.

This is an excellent reference for JUnit. I love it!