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Next Generation Java Testing: TestNG and Advanced Concepts
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by Cédric Beust and Hani Suleiman
Sales Rank: 53103
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List Price: $49.99
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Paperback: 512 pages
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional; 1 edition October 25, 2007
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0321503104
ISBN-13: 978-0321503107
Product Dimensions:
9.2 x 6.9 x 1.3 inches
Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds
Product Description
Enterprise Java developers must achieve broader, deeper test coverage, going beyond unit testing to implement functional and integration testing with systematic acceptance. Next Generation Java™ Testing introduces breakthrough Java testing techniques and TestNG, a powerful open source Java testing platform.
Cédric Beust, TestNG's creator, and leading Java developer Hani Suleiman, present powerful, flexible testing patterns that will work with virtually any testing tool, framework, or language. They show how to leverage key Java platform improvements designed to facilitate effective testing, such as dependency injection and mock objects. They also thoroughly introduce TestNG, demonstrating how it overcomes the limitations of older frameworks and enables new techniques, making it far easier to test today's complex software systems.
Pragmatic and results-focused, Next Generation Java™ Testing will help Java developers build more robust code for today's mission-critical environments.
This book- Illuminates the tradeoffs associated with testing, so you can make better decisions about what and how to test
- Introduces TestNG, explains its goals and features, and shows how to apply them in real-world environments
- Shows how to integrate TestNG with your existing code, development frameworks, and software libraries
- Demonstrates how to test crucial code features, such as encapsulation, state sharing, scopes, and thread safety
- Shows how to test application elements, including JavaEE APIs, databases, Web pages, and XML files
- Presents advanced techniques: testing partial failures, factories, dependent testing, remote invocation, cluster-based test farms, and more
- Walks through installing and using TestNG plug-ins for Eclipse, and IDEA
- Contains extensive code examples
Whether you use TestNG, JUnit, or another testing framework, the testing design patterns presented in this book will show you how to improve your tests by giving you concrete advice on how to make your code and your design more testable.
About The Author
Cédric Beust, a senior software engineer at Google, is an active member of the Java Community Process who has been extensively involved in the development of the latest Java release. He is the creator and main contributor to the TestNG project.
Hani Suleiman is CTO of Formicary, a consulting and portal company specializing in financial applications. He is one of two individual members who has been elected to the Executive Committee of the Java Community Process.
Customer Reviews & Comments
This was not the book I expected, but it makes a lot of sense that it turned out this way. Cedric is like the Martin Luther of the testing world. I ranted about a lot of the same things in JUnit, especially for instance, the whole crazy TestDecorator business, but Cedric just blew the house down. TestNG, after JUnit, was like getting out of jail. So it makes sense that this book is a kind of exhaustive compendium of testing approaches, and as such, it succeeds, in most ways. There are a few things that don't show up, for instance, there is discussion of container testing, but Shale is not mentioned (unit testing JSF is made much better by it, and JSF is part of JEE5 so it deserves attention). The section on testing XML was good, considering dom4j, XMLUnit, etc., but it ends too quickly. For instance, what about using XPath statements? or some schema tools? Given that Cedric's partner in crime, of Bileblog fame, was aboard for this outing, rants were bound to ensue, and they are mostly useful and add value, if they are rather tame. The one about logging left me just totally perplexed. Logging is not good? It's made out to be even possibly harmful? Say what? On the other hand, the rants about JUnit are on target. Their rant about using test coverage as a badge of honor is right on the money. They even go into Spring's test mechanisms, and do a good job with it. Then they skate through Guice to discuss some of the advantages of preventing the spread into XML. Now, the lead argument here is that not only does the metadata produce bloat, but it puts logic out of the grasp of refactoring tools (an argument Cedric has used v. dynamic languages). In an age where computer books are usually long articles, this book goes through a dizzying range of subjects, and does so without resorting to the bland repetition of documentation that is already out there. I could only have wished for a greater emphasis on innovation. The reason is that this book I am afraid will scare people who really need to be brought into the fold. It's pathetic, really, but most teams are still either not testing or doing crazy things like writing a few tests after delivering the code. For people who have dug around trying to get a lot of the right things into their test diet, this is the best guide available right now.
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Next Generation Java Testing: TestNG and Advanced Concepts
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