Java Testing Patterns

JON THOMAS is a senior software engineer for ScriptSave, where he creates and adopts a variety of patterns for building and testing Java applications. He was also a contributor to the bestselling book Java Tools for Extreme Programming (Wiley). MATTHEW YOUNG is the senior Java architect at HealthTrio in Tucson, Arizona. He champions the causes of UML, the Agile process, and engineering process improvement. KYLE BROWN is a senior technical staff member with IBM Software Services for WebSphere. He has published more than fifty papers and articles on software-engineering topics, including database patterns. ANDREW GLOVER is CTO for Vanward Technologies and specializes in building automated testing frameworks for Java and a variety of other platforms.

Dedication.About the Authors.Introduction.Chapter 1: Critical Testing Concepts.Chapter 2: Unit Testing.Chapter 3: Integration Testing.Chapter 4: End-to-End Testing.Chapter 5: Database Testing.Chapter 6: Assertion Pattern.Chapter 7: Mock Object Pattern.Chapter 8: Mock Data Access Objects (DAOs).Chapter 9: Test Database Pattern.Chapter 10: Controlled Exception Pattern.Chapter 11: Self-Shunt Pattern.Chapter 12: AbstractTest Pattern.Chapter 13: Category-Partition Pattern.Chapter 14: Use Case Testing Pattern.Chapter 15: ObjectMother Pattern.Chapter 16: Quasi-Modal Testing Pattern.Chapter 17: Sample Application Description.Chapter 18: Design and Components of the Sample Application.Chapter 19: Unit Tests for the Sample Application.Chapter 20: Functional Tests for the Sample Application.Chapter 21: Integrating Unit Tests into Ant.Appendix A: A Guide to JUnit.Appendix B: Ant Reference.Appendix C: DbUnit Reference.Appendix D: Unified Modeling Language (UML).Appendix E: Aspect-Oriented Programming and Testing.Index.