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Java EE 8 Development with Eclipse. - Third Edition

You're reading from  Java EE 8 Development with Eclipse. - Third Edition

Product type Book
Published in Jun 2018
Publisher
ISBN-13 9781788833776
Pages 596 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
Languages
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Table of Contents (20) Chapters close

Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Dedication
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1. Introducing JEE and Eclipse 2. Creating a Simple JEE Web Application 3. Source Control Management in Eclipse 4. Creating JEE Database Applications 5. Unit Testing 6. Debugging the JEE Application 7. Creating JEE Applications with EJB 8. Creating Web Applications with Spring MVC 9. Creating Web Services 10. Asynchronous Programming with JMS 11. Java CPU Profiling and Memory Tracking 12. Microservices 13. Deploying JEE Applications in the Cloud 14. Securing JEE Applications 1. Other Books You May Enjoy Index

Chapter 5. Unit Testing

In the last chapter, we learned how to create a web application that uses a database. In this chapter, we will learn how to write and execute unit tests in Eclipse for JEE applications. We will cover the following topics in this chapter:

  • Creating and executing unit tests using Eclipse JEE
  • Executing unit tests from Eclipse IDE
  • Mocking external dependencies for unit tests
  • Calculating unit test coverage

Testing the software that you develop is a very important part of the overall software development cycle. There are many types of testing; each one has a specific purpose, and each one varies in scope. Some examples of testing are functional testing, integration testing, scenario testing, and unit testing.

Of all these types, unit tests are the narrowest in scope and are typically coded and executed by developers. Each unit test is meant to test a specific and small piece of functionality (typically, a method in a class), and is expected to execute without any external dependencies...

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