In my last post, I wrote about hints provided in NetBeans 7.4 beta that improve a developer’s ability to avoid nasty runtime issues with Java exception handling. In this post, I look at how two more ...

In a recent article, I covered the creation of JUnit tests to perform unit testing on Java classes. Although testing individual classes is helpful, unit tests work best when they're written to cover ...

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Why, of course, by virtually starting up the Java class and pushing the buttons, so to speak. You test a Java class by calling methods on it from another Java class. The following Java source file is ...

JUnit, a simple testing framework created by Kent Beck and Erich Gamma during a long airplane trip a few years ago, ushered in a new era of developer testing. A cottage industry grew up around "*Unit" ...

In a typical enterprise application, many areas require testing. Starting from the simplest components, classes, the developers or specialized test developers need to program unit tests to ensure that ...