Enhancement of Test-Driven Development Courseware

st1:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) }st2:*{behavior:url(#ieooui)Earlier this year we added a new course to our courseware curriculum: “Test-Driven Development” in Java (21.06.01). At that moment it seemed adequate to limit that course to a short and narrow-scoped course on TDD (test-driven development).

Upon customer demand we have however since then been enhancing and adding content of this course:

• Added introduction to Continuous Integration (CI)
• Added content on Code coverage (plus included in the exercises)
• Added content on using Maven
• Added a lesson on Spring’s TestContext framework
• “Mavenized” all exercises

The course already from the start enclosed the following characteristics:

• Explanation of Test-driven development (test-first)
• Complete coverage of JUnit 4.5 (hamcrest, suites, theories, paramerized test, etc)
• Mocking using EasyMock 2.4
• Database testing using DBUnit 2.3 (and now also using Spring)
• Web application testing using HTTPUnit 1.6
• Explaination of various best-practice testing techniques

More enhancements and new stuff is scheduled to be added in the next months (exercise using a CI server) short section on in-container testing (“short”, because this is not done as often as before), more best-practices….