Test Driven Development in a Java Environment Training in Russia

Competence in Java, or similar object-oriented programming language.

At the end of this course you will have:

• The ability to take the TDD approach to software development
• An understanding of the key techniques and strategies of TDD, and principles of refactoring code
• The ability to write unit tests in JUnit versions 4 and 3
• The ability to use mock objects in unit tests
• Work with fitnesse to develop system level tests
• Track down bugs quickly using JUnit and fitnesse

Unit tests and the xUnit framework.

• JUnit overview
• The TestCase and Assert classes
• Developing a JUnit 4 test and test suite for a class
• Java 5 features used in JUnit 4
• JUnit 4 versions of tests and test suites
• JUnit and ant

Motivation for using Mock Objects.

• Stubs and Mocks
• Worked example
• EasyMock argument matchers
• Mocking and Static methods.
• When to use Mock Objects
• Drawbacks of Mock Objects

Test Driven Development.

• Test Driven Development
• Benefits of TDD
• TDD Strategies - with JUnit and with fitnesse
• TDD Process: Worked Examples with JUnit
• TDD Process: Worked Examples with fitnesse
• TDD Testing Best Practices
• Exception tests
• Performance tests
• Fixing broken code in a speedy manner, successfully tracking down bugs using a combination of unit tests and TDD scripts

'Code Smells'.

• Benefits of Refactoring Code.
• Important Refactorings
• Testing Patterns
• Testing Heuristics
• Coverage

Conclusion

• Pros and Cons of TDD

The workshop is strongly oriented towards lab work. In order to reverse deeply ingrained habits, of writing code first and tests only as a possible afterthought, it is essential to give developers as much time as possible working in a test-first manner.