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Mastering Software Testing with JUnit 5

By : Boni Garcia
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Mastering Software Testing with JUnit 5

By: Boni Garcia

Overview of this book

When building an application it is of utmost importance to have clean code, a productive environment and efficient systems in place. Having automated unit testing in place helps developers to achieve these goals. The JUnit testing framework is a popular choice among Java developers and has recently released a major version update with JUnit 5. This book shows you how to make use of the power of JUnit 5 to write better software. The book begins with an introduction to software quality and software testing. After that, you will see an in-depth analysis of all the features of Jupiter, the new programming and extension model provided by JUnit 5. You will learn how to integrate JUnit 5 with other frameworks such as Mockito, Spring, Selenium, Cucumber, and Docker. After the technical features of JUnit 5, the final part of this book will train you for the daily work of a software tester. You will learn best practices for writing meaningful tests. Finally, you will learn how software testing fits into the overall software development process, and sits alongside continuous integration, defect tracking, and test reporting.
Table of Contents (8 chapters)

Dynamic tests

As we know, in JUnit 3, we identified tests by parsing method names and checking whether they started with the word test. Then, in JUnit 4, we identified tests by collecting methods annotated with @Test. Both of these techniques share the same approach: tests are defined at compile time. This concept is what we call static testing.

Static tests are considered a limited approach, especially for the common scenario in which the same test is supposed to be executed for a variety of input data. In JUnit 4, this limitation was addressed in several ways. A very simple solution to the problem is to loop the input test data and exercising the same test logic (JUnit 4 example here). Following this approach, one test is executed until the first assertion fails:

package io.github.bonigarcia;

import org.junit.Test;

public class MyTest {

@Test
public void test() {
...