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Hands-On Automation Testing with Java for Beginners

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Hands-On Automation Testing with Java for Beginners

Overview of this book

Java is one of the most commonly-used software languages by programmers and developers. Are you from a non-technical background and looking to master Java for your automation needs? Then Hands-On Automation Testing with Java for Beginners is for you. This book provides you with efficient techniques to effectively handle Java-related automation projects. You will learn how to handle strings and their functions in Java. As you make your way through the book, you will get to grips with classes and objects, along with their uses. In the concluding chapters, you will learn about the importance of inheritance and exceptions with practical examples. By the end of this book, you will have gained comprehensive knowledge of Java.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

The Date class


To understand the concept of the Date class, we will begin by creating source code for our dateDemo class. Let's say we want to print the current date or current time. How do we print that?

At times, we are asked to enter the date into the current date field and we need to get it from Java. In such cases, we will use the Date class, which will give us the current date and current time, in seconds as well. So every detail about the day, week, month, year, or hour can be read through from Java classes. Java has developed a class called Date, from which we can get all these details. The following screenshot displays the source code:

Source code displaying use of date class

Basically, we need to use the methods present in that particular class. To use the methods present in that class, we need to create an object of that particular class. For this, let's consider the following code syntax:

Date d= new Date();

This Date class comes from the util package, and d is the object of the Date...