Welcome to Eclipse Application Testing How-to. This book will cover major aspects of testing using Eclipse Integrated Development Environment. Before we start, it is important to mention that testing plays a very important role in the application's development. We all know that nothing is perfect, and no matter how hard we try, we all are humans and we make mistakes. I am sure you can recall the last time when you were trying to find out why your program did not run, and in the end it was just a semicolon or a typo that spoiled your application. It happens to all of us. You cannot avoid the human factor, but what you can do is test your application and make sure it runs properly.

Application testing can imply anything from printing a single variable's value to running hundreds of tests to evaluate the application's performance, compatibility, usability, security, and other factors.

This book will show you some easy ways of how you can make your testing process much more enjoyable by using a rich set of tools provided by Eclipse. There are many reasons why you should consider using Eclipse for your development and testing. Not only is Eclipse free and easily customized, but also it is cross-platform; it has a huge community of developers, and hundreds of plugins.

Summarizing all of the above, testing plays a very important role in an application's development, and Eclipse makes this process more enjoyable for the developer. If you want to find out how to incorporate Eclipse in your testing process, this book is right for you.