A 3-day comprehensive hands-on class on Automated Testing in Java, including process, best practices and techniques.

Students should have a good understanding of the Java Platform SE and EE.

• Recognising the value of Automated tests
• identifying different ways of achieving results
• Test/Behaviour-Driven Development (TDD/BDD)
• The theory and practice behind "test-green-refactor"
• What not to use TDD (when not to test-first)
• Writing unit tests (TDD)
• Contrast with writing specifications (BDD)
• JUnit 4.x (all aspects)
• The Hamcrest API (bundled with JUnit plus more)
• Value of Code coverage
• Test in isolation using Mocking (using Mockito)
• Protect yourself for mock and stub-to-death
• Database test using DBUnit (and alternatives)
• Best practices, pitfalls etc
• Continuous integration (using Jenkins)
• Intro :Spring TestContext framework (including integration testing)
• Intro: In container-Integration Testing using Arquillian and Pax Exam
• Intro: Acceptance Testing using Selenium
• Some other discussions: JavaScript BDD with Jasmine/Karma, Using Scala Specs2 for BDD Java development