How to approach JUnit for unit testing

How to approach JUnit for unit testing

I like JUnit from what I hear. I do not know how to use it. Please kindly advise me how to use it.

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In 2005 Dana Spears and I held a workshop on unit testing in Indianapolis. I published some of the findings of that workshop here. At the end of that article, I recommended a number of resources for getting started. That list included Kent Beck's Test-Driven Development: By Example (Addison-Wesley, 2002, ISBN 0321146530) and TestDriven.com.

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Given that you asked specifically about JUnit, I would also recommend the JUnit documentation on SourceForge. A great example which walks you through specific tests (follow along in JUnit as you read it) is JUnit Test Infected: Programmers Love Writing Tests. Once you've read a bit about it, the best way to learn is to start doing it. Just start. The more you do it, the easier it gets.

This was first published in November 2009