7 Most Useful Books To Learn Unit Testing For Java Programmers

7 Most Useful Books To Learn Unit Testing For Java Programmers

Here we have listed the 7 best books for testing frameworks for Java development.    Tuesday, November 04, 2014:  Over past few years software testing is becoming a common trend like unit testing, web UI testing, performance and load testing, integration testing and so on. Each testing framework has its own benefits in ensuring software quality. Developers need best testing frameworks for their projects in order to increase quality of software and productivity. Here we have listed the 7 best books for testing frameworks for Java development. 1. Mastering Unit Testing Using Mockito and JUnit: Written by Sujoy Acharya, this book details about unit testing, continuous integration, Mockito, static code analysis, Checkstyle, FindBugs and PMD plug-in, system integrity, legacy code, greenfield code, automation of JUnit tests, configuring tests and so on. 2. Pragmatic Unit testing in Java with JUnit: This is one of the primary books read for the purpose of unit testing and JUnit and it's a very short book. Written by Andy Hunt and Dave Thomas it introduces the concept and process of unit testing and JUnit. This book consists of lots of examples and helpful acronyms which will aid you in writing complete test for boundary conditions. Readers can also learn how to unit test Java application, how to write good test, boundary conditions, design issues and more. It's a well recommended book for Java developers who want to unit test their programs. 3. Practical Unit Testing with JUnit and Mockito: Written by Tomek Kaczanowski, this is one of the best books on tests and tools for Java programmers, regarding unit tests. This book is a helpful guide on unit tests without any collaborator, test driven development, organisation of tests, test quality maintenance, running tests with Eclipse, Gradle and Maven and it also keeps you updated on providing feedback as well as sharing knowledge about controversies. 4. TDD and Acceptance TDD for Java Developers: This book is one of the best ones for testing by Java application and also for Junit and test driven development. For any Java developer this book is best which also teaches how to test Java programs, how to test particular class, method or module. Written by Lasse Koskela this book focuses on writing tests for core Java application, writing tests about Servlet, JSP, Spring MVC Controllers and many more. The language in this book is quite simple and the explanations are also good for experienced Java programmers. 5. Mockito Cookbook: Authored by Marcin Grzejszczak, this book helps you get started with Mockito and teach you about best practices in Mockito. You can learn about creating mocks in code with annotations and default answers, stubbing methods with return values and exceptions, removing problems in instance creation and injecting test doubles. 6. JUnit in Action, Second Edition: This book covers Junit as a library and for testing Java application. It introduces Junit and also offers useful guidance on how to use stubs and mocks to test Java application, how to write HTML Unit and Selenium test for Java web application, integrating Junit test with build tools like ANT and Maven etc. All useful details about unit testing principle and tools are covered in this book by Petar Tahchiev, Felipe Leme, Vincent Massol and Gary Gregory. 7. Performance Testing With JMeter 2.9: Authored by Bayo Erinle, this guide encompasses performance testing fundamentals, use of Jmeter for the purpose, managing sessions with cookies, server monitoring, remote testing, Jmeter functioning and other web services.