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Hands-On Automation Testing with Java for Beginners

You're reading from   Hands-On Automation Testing with Java for Beginners Build automation testing frameworks from scratch with Java

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789534603
Length 156 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Rahul Shetty Rahul Shetty
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Preface 1. First Programming Steps in Java FREE CHAPTER 2. Understanding Classes, Objects, and Their Usage in Java 3. Handling Strings and Their Functions in Java 4. Building Blocks for Java Programs – Loops and Conditions 5. Everything You Need to Know About Interfaces and Inheritance 6. Learn Everything about Arrays 7. Understanding Date Class and Constructors in Java 11 8. Importance of the super and this Keywords and Exceptions in Java 9. Understanding the Collections Framework 10. The Importance of the final Keyword, Packages, and Modifiers 11. Other Books You May Enjoy

The Date class

To understand the concept of the Date class, we will begin by creating source code for our dateDemo class. Let's say we want to print the current date or current time. How do we print that?

At times, we are asked to enter the date into the current date field and we need to get it from Java. In such cases, we will use the Date class, which will give us the current date and current time, in seconds as well. So every detail about the day, week, month, year, or hour can be read through from Java classes. Java has developed a class called Date, from which we can get all these details. The following screenshot displays the source code:

Source code displaying use of date class

Basically, we need to use the methods present in that particular class. To use the methods present in that class, we need to create an object of that particular class. For this, let...

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