The JUnit Lambda Team has recently announced the alpha release of JUnit 5, a new major version for the popular unit testing framework. After a successful crowdfunding campaign to allow for full-time ...

The NetBeans IDE provides JUnit integration that can be very handy when writing and running JUnit-based unit tests. However, I like to be able to do anything I might do often outside of the IDE as ...

JUnit 5 is a modular and extensible testing framework with support for Java 8 and higher JUnit 5 is composed of three things--a foundational platform, a new programming and extension model, Jupiter, ...

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 ...

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" ...