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You're reading from Test-Driven Java Development, Second Edition Invoke TDD principles for end-to-end application development

Product type Paperback

Published in Mar 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788836111

Length 324 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

Java

Concepts

Application Development

Authors (2):

Alex Garcia

Viktor Farcic

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Table of Contents (14) Chapters

Preface

1. Why Should I Care for Test-Driven Development? FREE CHAPTER

2. Tools, Frameworks, and Environments

3. Red-Green-Refactor – From Failure Through Success until Perfection

4. Unit Testing – Focusing on What You Do and Not on What Has Been Done

5. Design – If It's Not Testable, It's Not Designed Well

6. Mocking – Removing External Dependencies

7. TDD and Functional Programming – A Perfect Match

8. BDD – Working Together with the Whole Team

9. Refactoring Legacy Code – Making It Young Again

10. Feature Toggles – Deploying Partially Done Features to Production

11. Putting It All Together

12. Leverage TDD by Implementing Continuous Delivery

13. Other Books You May Enjoy

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Refactoring Legacy Code – Making It Young Again

TDD may not adjust to legacy code straight away. You may have to fiddle a bit with the steps to make it work. Understand that your TDD may change in this case, because somehow, you are no longer performing the TDD you were used to. This chapter will introduce you to the world of legacy code, taking as much as we can from TDD.

We'll start afresh, with a legacy application that is currently in production. We'll alter it in small ways without introducing defects or regressions, and we'll even have time to have an early lunch!

The following topics are covered in this chapter:

Legacy code
Dealing with legacy code
REST communication
Dependency injection
Tests at different levels: end-to-end, integration, and unit

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Authors (2)

Garcia

Alex Garcia is a Software Engineer at Schibsted. He started coding in C++ but later moved to Java. He is also interested in Groovy, Scala, and JavaScript. He is always eager to learn new things and that is why he has also worked as a System Administrator and Full Stack Engineer. He is a big fan of agile practices. He is always interested in learning new languages, paradigms, and frameworks. When the computer is turned off, he likes to walk around sunny Barcelona and play sports.

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Viktor Farcic

Viktor Farcic is a senior consultant at CloudBees, a member of the Docker Captains group, and an author. He codes using a plethora of languages starting with Pascal (yes, he is old), Basic (before it got the Visual prefix), ASP (before it got the .NET suffix), C, C++, Perl, Python, ASP.NET, Visual Basic, C#, JavaScript, Java, Scala, and so on. He never worked with Fortran. His current favorite is Go. Viktor's big passions are Microservices, Continuous Deployment, and Test-Driven Development (TDD). He often speaks at community gatherings and conferences. Viktor wrote Test-Driven Java Development by Packt Publishing, and The DevOps 2.0 Toolkit. His random thoughts and tutorials can be found in his blog—Technology Conversations

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