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Test-Driven Java Development

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

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2015
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781783987429
Length 284 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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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. BDD – Working Together with the Whole Team 8. Refactoring Legacy Code – Making it Young Again 9. Feature Toggles – Deploying Partially Done Features to Production 10. Putting It All Together Index

Setting up the environment with Gradle and JUnit


You are probably familiar with the setup of Java projects. However, you might not have worked with IntelliJ IDEA before or you might have used Maven instead of Gradle. In order to make sure that you can follow the exercise, we'll quickly go through the setup.

Setting up Gradle/Java project in IntelliJ IDEA

The main purpose of this book is to teach TDD, so we will not go into detail about Gradle and IntelliJ IDEA. Both are used as an example. All exercises in this book can be done with different choices for IDE and build tools. You can, for example, use Maven and Eclipse instead. For most, it might be easier to follow the same guidelines as those presented throughout the book, but the choice is yours.

The following steps will create a new Gradle project in IntelliJ IDEA:

  1. Open IntelliJ IDEA. Click on Create New Project and select Gradle from the left-hand side menu. Then, click on Next.

  2. If you are using IDEA 14 and higher, you will be asked for an...

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