Test Driven: TDD and Acceptance TDD for Java Developers

by Lasse Koskela (Author)

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In test driven development, you first write an executable test ofwhat your application code must do. Only then do you write thecode itself and, with the test spurring you on, you improve yourdesign. In acceptance test driven development (ATDD), you usethe same technique to implement product features, benefiting fromiterative development, rapid feedback cycles, and better-definedrequirements. TDD and its supporting tools and techniques leadto better software faster.

Test Driven brings under one cover practical TDD techniquesdistilled from several years of community experience. With examplesin Java and the Java EE environment, it explores both the techniquesand the mindset of TDD and ATDD. It uses carefully chosen examplesto illustrate TDD tools and design patterns, not in the abstractbut concretely in the context of the technologies you face at work.It is accessible to TDD beginners, and it offers effective and less wellknown techniques to older TDD hands.

Purchase of the print book comes with an offer of a free PDF, ePub, and Kindle eBook from Manning. Also available is all code from the book.

What's Inside

Learn hands-on to test drive Java code
How to avoid common TDD adoption pitfalls
Acceptance test driven development and the Fit framework
How to test Java EE components-Servlets, JSPs, and SpringControllers
Tough issues like multithreaded programs and data access code

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About the Author

Lasse Koskela is a methodology specialist at Reaktor Innovations. He started promoting Agile methods in Finland in 2002, ramped up the local Agile Seminars in 2005, and has coached dozens of teams around Europe in agile methods and development practices such as test driven development.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ 1932394850
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Manning Publications (October 22, 2007)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 470 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9781932394856
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1932394856
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.37 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.38 x 1.1 x 9.25 inches

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Siddhardha

Good Overview of TDD

Reviewed in the United States on April 6, 2015

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This book gives a good overview of TDD and it does cover a fair amount of ground. However, the treatment is superficial on some topics making it less useful for someone experienced with TDD. This book also discusses challenges in adoption of TDD across a team or an organization and offers some solutions for the same in the very last chapter. Novices to TDD will benefit the most from this work while for the rest the value addition may be marginal.

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Valery Tamashevich

Very helpful book.

Reviewed in the United States on March 3, 2020

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TDD very well explained.

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J.J. Langr

may be -the- book on TDD in Java

Reviewed in the United States on November 2, 2007

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I've just begun digging into Lasse Koskela's book, Test Driven, but it's already clear that this is the book I will recommend to existing Java programmers for a thorough coverage of TDD. (I'm pointing new Java programmers somewhere else, however. :-))

The text is very well written and engaging. The introductory material, getting developers up to speed on what TDD is and isn't, and how to do it well, is very patient yet not so slow that it's tedious.

The book is well-rounded, and contains information that you're not going to find in the other books on TDD. For example, it includes a good introductory coverage to acceptance testing using FIT/FitNesse. It also includes some recommendations on multithreaded testing, and some practical discussion about the distinctions between unit and integration testing, and what's entailed.

I think Koskela did a good job at surveying the current Java landscape and providing recommendations around the predominant tools/environments. I hope he's able to update the book in a couple years!

Overall, the book has many useful tips throughout, and wraps up with a thorough discussion of what it will take to adopt TDD in an organization. So far it's one of the more enjoyable and useful tech books I've read this year.

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rockstar15

This book is from 2012, and many of the resources are Deprecated

Reviewed in the United States on April 1, 2020

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conceptually there might be some sound principles, but the examples and tutorials are completely useless

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C. Bartling

Awesome reference for TDD

Reviewed in the United States on February 22, 2008

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Great book. I've read Kent Beck's book, but his book is a bit dated these days. I found Test Driven to be a nice, timely refresh of the TDD and refactoring topic. I've done some mentoring and teaching on TDD and refactoring lately and I've been evangelizing this book to my students/participants. Well worth the money.

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Sang Venkatraman

Buy this book NOW!!!

Reviewed in the United States on December 25, 2007

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As an intermediate java developer, I like a book which explains a little theory and backs it up with good examples (which eventually can be expanded into my work in commercial java development). This book fits the bill precisely and is one of the best and most useful technical books that I have read so far. The writing is interesting and the example code works. I especially liked the chapter on data access testing and the ones covering web apps and EJB testing were interesting as well.
Overall, the author makes an excellent argument for test-driven development and covers the current java technologies (Spring, Hibernate, EJB 2 and 3, etc.) to date.
Buy this book and you will not go wrong.

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Remo

Great book for learning TDD

Reviewed in the United States on February 10, 2010

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TDD and unit testing is something that my company is moving toward. This book helped me learn it quickly and it was also fun. The exercises are funny and they do well in proving the methodologies. Recommended.

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Alvaro Gonzalez Fernandez

How to do Test Driven Development in Java

Reviewed in the United States on October 30, 2008

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If you are interesting in Java TDD with Junit this is your book. Cover different kinds of test depending what are you testing (Dao, logic, threads, etc). Also it has a good chapter of 'business test' and gives you a basic idea of other great tools like Fit.

But if you are more interested in 'business test' probably the book Fit for Developing Software: Framework for Integrated Tests (Rick Mugridge and Ward Cunningham) it's much better option.

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Jon

Great for outside in and TDD design

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 22, 2021

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Contains a great deal of outside in design and development. One of my favourites and I've been acculating a wealth of TDD knowledge. I havent come across the details elsewhere.

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Allen d.

Qualidade perfeita e antes do prazo

Reviewed in Brazil on August 28, 2021

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O livro chegou bem antes do prazo que estava descrito (ainda bem haha) e muito bem embalado, qualidade incrível.

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Thomas Grund

Besser geht's nicht

Reviewed in Germany on June 17, 2011

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Das Buch ist hervorragend geschrieben. Daß man den letzten Satz eines Kapiteln zum Titel des Folgekapitels macht, kannte ich noch nicht; das gibt dem Buch eine starke Struktur. Allerdings sind nicht alle Kapitel für alle Leser gleichermaßen interessant.

Fasziniert hat mich der Anhang. Hier habe ich auf nur einer Seite alles über die aktuelle EasyMock-Version erfahren, was ich wissen wollte und in der Original-Dokumentation nicht gefunden habe. Genauso ist es mit JUnit, das auf sehr wenigen Seiten so umfassend erklärt ist, wie es der Normal-Anwender braucht.

"Test Driven" ist eines der Highlights in meinem Fachbuch-Regal.

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