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Learning RxJava

You're reading from   Learning RxJava Reactive, Concurrent, and responsive applications

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787120426
Length 400 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Thomas Nield Thomas Nield
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Thinking Reactively 2. Observables and Subscribers FREE CHAPTER 3. Basic Operators 4. Combining Observables 5. Multicasting, Replaying, and Caching 6. Concurrency and Parallelization 7. Switching, Throttling, Windowing, and Buffering 8. Flowables and Backpressure 9. Transformers and Custom Operators 10. Testing and Debugging 11. RxJava on Android 12. Using RxJava for Kotlin New Appendix

Testing and Debugging

While unit testing is not a silver bullet to ensure that your code works properly, it is a good practice to strive for. This is especially true if your logic is highly deterministic and modular enough to isolate.

Testing with RxJava at first glance may not seem straightforward. After all, RxJava declares behaviors rather than states. So how do we test whether behaviors are working correctly, especially when most testing frameworks expect a stateful result? Fortunately, RxJava comes with several tools to aid testing, and you can use these tools with your favorite testing frameworks. There are many testing tools available on the market that can work with RxJava, but in this chapter, we will use JUnit.

We will also cover a few tips to effectively debug RxJava programs. One of the downsides of RxJava is that when bugs occur, traditional approaches to debugging...

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