Practical Unit Testing: JUnit 5, Mockito, TestNG, AssertJ

Practical Unit Testing with JUnit and Mockito

Practical Unit Testing with TestNG and Mockito

Nowadays developers are expected to write unit tests. While simple in theory, in practice writing high-quality unit tests can turn out to be a real challenge. This book will help.

Tools

This book explains in detail how to implement unit tests using very popular open source Java technologies: JUnit 5, TestNG, Mockito and AssertJ.

Techniques

It presents a range of techniques necessary to write high quality unit tests – e.g. mocks, parametrized tests and matchers. It also discusses trade-offs related to the choices we have to make when dealing with some real-life code issues.

Mindset

The book stresses the importance of writing readable and maintainable unit tests, and puts a lot of stress on code quality. It shows how to achieve testable code and to eliminate common mistakes by following the Test Driven Development (TDD) approach. Every topic discussed in the book is illustrated with code examples, and each chapter is accompanied by some exercises.

By reading this book you will:

Grasp the role and purpose of unit tests
Write high-quality, readable and maintainable unit tests
Learn how to use JUnit 5, Mockito, AssertJ, ...
Avoid common pitfalls
Recognize bad unit tests, and fix them in no time
Develop code following the Test Driven Development (TDD) approach
Use mocks, stubs and test-spies intelligently
Measure the quality of your tests using code coverage and mutation testing
Learn how to improve your tests’ code so it is an asset and not a burden
Test collections, expected exceptions, time-dependent methods and much more
Customize test reports so that they show you what you really need to know
Master tools and techniques your team members have never even heard of (priceless!) :)

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JUnit 5 version (2nd edition, 2019)

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Testimonials

[...] for those less familiar with testing and using TestNG and Mockito [...] this book is a totally must read as it gently introduces reader to world of proper unit testing using best tools available in Java world.

Review by Tomasz Dziurko.

This book gives a lot of good, general advice on unit testing in general (and not relevant only to Java), but it also brings one very quickly in working order with its two proponent tools. In two hours of reading, I knew more of the usage of TestNG and Mockito than after several days of Web crawling. And I have learned how to do TDD (test driven development) correctly.

From review on Amazon.com site

Tomek does also a good job of not just pushing his own preferences in Java unit testing, but presenting the available choices either for test strategies or for unit testing tools.
I would recommend this book to every developer concerned by code quality, especially if you are working in a Java context.

Franco Martinig, on Software Development Books site

[...]World would be better if every programmer read this book. The book focuses not only on the toolset which perhaps will be outdated very quickly but also/mainly on the OO design and testing principles.

Review from Goodreads site

I liked the approach of the author to have an open view on unit testing and presenting all the available choices for testing strategies or tools selection instead of just pushing his own opinion.

From review on Amazon.com site

[...]the book contains a high percentage of general unit testing knowledge that can be applied (mostly) independently of the language and tools that you are using.
This book is highly recommendable to all software developers interested in unit testing, particularly if you are working in a Java context.

From Franco Martinig's blog

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About the Author

Tomek Kaczanowski Hi there!

My name is Tomek Kaczanowski, and I’m happy to present to you the results of my hard work. This book have been written on the basis of my experience as a senior Java developer, trainer, mentor, technical team leader and merciless code reviewer. :)

The book have been proofread by several TDD & Java experts, and corrected by a native speaker, so I feel pretty confident about recommending it. Okay then, let’s forget about modesty: I reckon these really are the best books dealing with unit tests on the market! I hope you’ll share my opinion - when you’ve read them! :)

Personally, I would have been really happy to have had the chance to read book like this some time ago: it would have spared me several grey hairs, for sure! :) I would also be happy if my colleagues were to read them and follow the advice they would find there... :)

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