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You're reading from Test-Driven Java Development, Second Edition Invoke TDD principles for end-to-end application development

Product type Paperback

Published in Mar 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788836111

Length 324 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

Java

Concepts

Application Development

Authors (2):

Alex Garcia

Viktor Farcic

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Table of Contents (14) Chapters

Preface

1. Why Should I Care for Test-Driven Development? FREE CHAPTER

2. Tools, Frameworks, and Environments

3. Red-Green-Refactor – From Failure Through Success until Perfection

4. Unit Testing – Focusing on What You Do and Not on What Has Been Done

5. Design – If It's Not Testable, It's Not Designed Well

6. Mocking – Removing External Dependencies

7. TDD and Functional Programming – A Perfect Match

8. BDD – Working Together with the Whole Team

9. Refactoring Legacy Code – Making It Young Again

10. Feature Toggles – Deploying Partially Done Features to Production

11. Putting It All Together

12. Leverage TDD by Implementing Continuous Delivery

13. Other Books You May Enjoy

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The integrated development environment

As many tools and technologies will be covered, we recommend using IntelliJ IDEA as the tool for code development. The main reason is that this integrated development environment (IDE) works without any tedious configuration. The Community Edition (IntelliJ IDEA CE) comes with a bunch of built-in features and plugins that make coding easy and efficient. It automatically recommends plugins that can be installed depending on the file extension. As IntelliJ IDEA is the choice we made for this book, you will find references and steps referring to its actions or menus. Readers should find a proper way to emulate those steps if they are using other IDEs. Refer to: https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/ for instructions on how to download and install IntelliJ IDEA.

The IDEA demo project

Let's create the base layout of the demo project. This project will be used throughout this chapter to illustrate all the topics that are covered. Java will be the programming language...