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Getting Started with Eclipse Juno

By : Rodrigo Fraxino Araujo, Vinicius H. S. Durelli, Rafael M. Teixeira
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Getting Started with Eclipse Juno

By: Rodrigo Fraxino Araujo, Vinicius H. S. Durelli, Rafael M. Teixeira

Overview of this book

<p>Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) such as Eclipse are examples of tools that help developers by automating an assortment of software development-related tasks. By reading this book you will learn how to get Eclipse to automate common development tasks, which will give you a boost of productivity.<br /><br />Getting Started with Eclipse Juno is targeted at any Java programmer interested in taking advantage of the benefits provided by a full-fledged IDE. This book will get the reader up to speed with Eclipse’s powerful features to write, refactor, test, debug, and deploy Java applications.<br /><br />This book covers all you need to know to get up to speed in Eclipse Juno IDE. It is mainly tailored for Java beginners that want to make the jump from their text editors to a powerful IDE. However, seasoned Java developers not familiar with Eclipse will also find the hands-on tutorials in this book useful.</p> <p><br />The book starts off by showing how to perform the most basic activities related to implementing Java applications (creating and organizing Java projects, refactoring, and setting launch configurations), working up to more sophisticated topics as testing, web development, and GUI programming.</p> <p><br />This book covers managing a project using a version control system, testing and debugging an application, the concepts of advanced GUI programming, developing plugins and rich client applications, along with web development.</p>
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Getting Started with Eclipse Juno
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
4
Version Control Systems
Index

Summary


In this chapter, we presented the basic of creating unit tests using Eclipse and JUnit. You saw how Eclipse is able to generate test method stubs and automate the execution of these methods by seamlessly integrating the JUnit. Moreover, we also gave an overview of the main JUnit features as, for example, the most commonly used annotations. Apart from unit tests, this chapter also briefly covered how to use the Java built-in Eclipse debugger.

Keep in mind that there are some testing-related topics which we did not cover in this chapter. Earlier on in the chapter, we mentioned that tests need to be independent from each other so that you can re-run them in any order that you wish. Sometimes, however, objects interact with other objects, which makes the creation of independent test methods more complex. In a unit test, when there are objects that may compromise the independence of the test or whose complexity may make the use of the real objects impractical, mock objects are used. These...