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[14 Nov 2008 | No Comment | ]

This tutorial shows you how to use IBM’s Rational Application Developer (IRAD) 6.0 to create and run a JUnit test on a simple JavaBean.

[6 Nov 2008 | No Comment | ]

Misko Hevery made a presentation at Google Tech Talks about unit testing. He tells us that “There is no secret to writing tests… … there are only secrets to writing testable code!”. He describes the different category of tests and shows the importance of unit testing. He describes how to avoid writing untestable code.

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Slides of the presentation (requires google account)
Testability-explorer is a tool which analyzes java byte-codes and computes how difficult it will be to write unit-test. It attempts to help you quantitatively determine how hard your code …

[11 Aug 2008 | No Comment | ]

Unit testing is a first-class developer duty with even higher priority in dynamic languages like Groovy. During this talk at the Grails eXchange 2007, Dierk explained the built-in features that Groovy provides for unit testing ranging from basic tests as known from JUnit, through Groovy specific testing strategies, up to advanced testing with the help of Groovy’s stubs and mocks. Special attention was given to Grails related unit test questions.
Dierk König works as a senior software developer, mentor and coach for Canoo Engineering AG in Basel, Switzerland. He is a …

[11 Aug 2008 | No Comment | ]

Cedric is a software engineer at Google. He is the creator of the testing framework TestNG and he regularly speaks at conferences about software testing and other programming related topics.

[24 Apr 2008 | No Comment | ]

Unit Testing Java & SOA, In-the-Brain of Frank Cohen at Skills Matter, London. Java developers have widely adopted test first software development strategies. Unit test frameworks for Java, Web services, Ajax, REST, Service Oriented Architecture, and Flash/Action Script show the diversity of adoption among Java developers. In this session, Frank took Java developers through the advanced topics in unit testing: turning unit tests into functional tests, running unit tests on a scalable grid of unit testing nodes, leveraging unit tests build by developers …