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Test-Driven Java Development, Second Edition

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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Summary

In this chapter, we first went through a brief overview of TDD. We learned about the four best practices that can help to improve the quality of software.

Moving on to the final chapter, we will be introduced to the concepts of CI and continuous delivery, and the importance of TDD all through the pipeline process will be highlighted with an example.

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Authors (2)

Viktor Farcic

Viktor Farcic

Viktor Farcic is a Principal Software Delivery Strategist and Developer Advocate at CloudBees, a member of the Google Developer Experts and Docker Captains groups, and the published author of The DevOps Toolkit Series, DevOps Paradox, and Test-Driven Java Development. His big passions are DevOps, Containers, Kubernetes, Microservices, Continuous Integration, Delivery and Deployment (CI/CD) and Test-Driven Development (TDD). He often speaks at community gatherings and conferences.

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Garcia

Garcia

Alex Garcia is a Software Engineer at Schibsted. He started coding in C++ but later moved to Java. He is also interested in Groovy, Scala, and JavaScript. He is always eager to learn new things and that is why he has also worked as a System Administrator and Full Stack Engineer. He is a big fan of agile practices. He is always interested in learning new languages, paradigms, and frameworks. When the computer is turned off, he likes to walk around sunny Barcelona and play sports.

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