Five-Project Series
- prerequisites
- Java • YAML syntax • Gherkin syntax • Webhooks
- skills learned
- Drive product design with tests • refurbish legacy code into code using unit tests • build server- and UI-integration tests • retrofit untested systems with unit-, server-, and UI-level tests • build load and performance tests for web applications
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team
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It’s a problem almost every developer will face in their career: inheriting an essential legacy library that’s full of bugs and has no automated tests to keep it running smoothly. In this liveProject series, you’ll step into the shoes of a Java developer handling just such a codebase for a stock image web application—one that will soon require significant changes to the library you maintain.
You’ll use JUnit 5 and IntelliJ IDEA to write tests and refactor this buggy code into something both usable and indefinitely maintainable. Each project is focused on a different approach or testing methodology to let you pick and choose which testing techniques to add to your toolbox.
These projects are designed for learning purposes and are not complete, production-ready applications or solutions.
liveProject mentor Sachin Rastogi shares what he likes about the Manning liveProject platform.
here's what's included
Project 1 Fix and Test Bugs
In this liveProject, you’ll find and fix some long-term bugs in a legacy library. You’ll write a test to characterize a bug in how certain assets are selected for a special display, then modify the test to turn it into a bugfix. Once you’ve squashed that bug, you’ll repeat the process to tackle two more common bugs for Java applications.
Project 2 Test Legacy Code
In this liveProject, you’ll set up tests to support refactoring of a legacy library. As you lack a written specification, you’ll use “pinning tests” to extract a specification from the existing code, and generate a wide range of test coverage. You’ll learn to spot when and where to improve code maintainability, and set up mutation testing to ensure your tests catch unintended changes.
Project 3 Refactor with Tests
In this liveProject, you’ll learn to use a battery of tests to support changing the design of some legacy code in preparation for adding new functionality. You’ll refactor your production code based on advice from your architecture team. Because you have a broad test suite, you will be able to change your design without fear of accidentally breaking a required behavior. The output will be a system that can more easily withstand incoming requirements changes and against which you can write smaller, more meaningful tests.
Project 4 Requirements-Based Tests
In this liveProject, you’ll explore writing high-quality, requirements-based tests against code with a solid design.You will take great care to ensure that each test focuses on a single, isolated behavior within the code. To that end, you’ll use techniques such as mocking to isolate requirements from one another for the purpose of testing. The output of the project is a codebase with a far more resilient test suite that will be able to stand the test of time.
Project 5 Test-First Programming
In this liveProject, you’ll write tests to drive changes in an existing codebase. You’ll analyze new requirements, reconcile them with what is currently documented by your test suite, and use the test-first technique to ensure new changes to your library are all justified, specified, and protected by tests.
books resources
When you start each of the projects in this series, you'll get full access to the following books for 90 days.
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Unit Testing with Java, JUnit 5, and IntelliJ IDEA project for free
Unit Testing with Java, JUnit 5, and IntelliJ IDEA project for free
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- five seats for your team
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Unit Testing with Java, JUnit 5, and IntelliJ IDEA project for free
features
- Self-paced
- You choose the schedule and decide how much time to invest as you build your project.
- Project roadmap
- Each project is divided into several achievable steps.
- Get Help
- While within the liveProject platform, get help from fellow participants and even more help with paid sessions with our expert mentors.
- Compare with others
- For each step, compare your deliverable to the solutions by the author and other participants.
- book resources
- Get full access to select books for 90 days. Permanent access to excerpts from Manning products are also included, as well as references to other resources.
