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Practice 5: Write Automated Developer Tests

Posted by: Paul Duvall on 07/25/2007

Practice 5 of the book (which is the fourth practice in chapter 2) is Write Automated Developer Tests. It’s a high-level practice that covers:

Writing an automated test using an xUnit-based framework such as JUnit or NUnit
Committing these tests to a version control repository
Running these automated tests as part of an integration build with every checkin (using Continuous Integration)

This video example demonstrates using the JUnit test framework with Eclipse.

The Continuous Integration book | Test Early | Stelligent

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About Paul Duvall

Paul M. Duvall is the CEO of Stelligent, a consulting firm that helps clients create production-ready software every day. He has worked in virtually every role on software projects: developer, project manager, architect and tester. He's been a featured speaker at many leading software conferences. He is the principal author of Continuous Integration: Improving Software Quality and Reducing Risk (Addison-Wesley, 2007; Jolt 2008 Award Winner). He contributed to the UML 2 Toolkit (Wiley, 2003), authors a series for IBM developerWorks called Automation for the people and authored a chapter in the No Fluff Just Stuff Anthology: The 2007 Edition (Pragmatic Programmers, 2007). He is passionate about automating software development and release processes. He actively blogs on IntegrateButton.com

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