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Java Unit Testing

  • Number of Courses5 courses
  • Duration8 hours
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Unit testing has become standard practice for today's software developers. The goal of this learning path is to help you understand how to write clean, testable code, all the way from writing your first test to mocking out dependencies to creating unit tests for your existing applications

Courses in this path

Beginner

Writing unit tests requires a solid foundation in the tools of the trade, and that is what will get with the courses in this section. You will learn about JUnit, the most popular unit testing framework for Java and Mockito, the most widely used mocking framework.

Getting Started Unit Testing with JUnit 5

  • by Jim Weaver
  • 1h 29m Duration
  •  (328)

Intermediate

This section introduces you to the concept of Test-driven development, where you write tests first and then the code that makes those tests pass. Whether you choose to use TDD all of the time or only part of the time, this is an important technique to add to your developer toolkit.

TDD with JUnit 5

  • by Catalin Tudose
  • 1h 17m Duration
  •  (321)

Getting Started with EasyMock 4

  • by Nicolae Caprarescu
  • 1h 52m Duration
  •  (26)

Getting Started with Mockito 2

  • by Nicolae Caprarescu
  • 1h 24m Duration
  •  (213)

Advanced

Writing unit tests for existing code bases can present unique challenges but in this section, you will learn to overcome those so that you can create tests and have the same confidence in your legacy applications as you do with newly developed code.

Unit Testing Legacy Code in Java SE 8

  • by Jim Weaver
  • 2h 8m Duration
  •  (59)

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Jim Weaver
Jim Weaver
Jim Weaver is a software developer with experience in many languages and platforms. He has worked in and led teams in many industry verticals including Defense, Leasing, Energy, and Healthcare. Jim has extensive experience with unit and acceptance testing techniques and tools, and is one of the original authors of JWebUnit, an open-source web application testing API and framework.
Catalin Tudose
Catalin Tudose
Cătălin Tudose is a Java Champion, Java and Web Technologies Expert, and a Java Chapter Lead in Luxoft, Romania. Born in Pitești, Argeș, Romania, he studied Computer Science in Bucharest, graduating in 1997 and obtaining a PhD in 2006, with the thesis "Spatial Databases for the Reconstruction of the Relief". He has taught courses and seminaries at POLITEHNICA București on Advanced Java Programming, Java Programming with Spring and Hibernate, Analysis of Algorithms, Computer Graphics, Logic Desig... more
Nicolae Caprarescu
Nicolae Caprarescu
Now an independent consultant, Nicolae started his career in 2013 as a software engineer. Over the years, Nicolae worked on systems ranging from high-frequency Java trading engines to various apps for startups. Nicolae's technical roles have always been full-stack, most often focusing on Java back-ends and web-based front-ends: Java, Spring, JDBC, SQL, Maven, Gradle, TeamCity, Jenkins, TDD, JUnit, mocking, automated testing, JavaScript, Selenium and RESTful. Nicolae's technical interests include... more

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