Final release of Integration Testing from the Trenches

Writing a book is a journey. At the beginning of the journey, you mostly know where you want to go, but have only vague notion of the way to get there and the time it will take. I’ve finally released the paperback version of Integration Testing from the Trenches  on Amazon  and that means this specific journey is at end.

The book starts by a very generic discussion about testing and continues by defining Integration Testing in comparison to Unit Testing. The next chapter compares the respective merits of Junit and TestNG. It is followed by complete description on how to make a design testable: what works for Unit Testing works also for Integration Testing. Testing in software relies on automation, so that specific usage of the Maven build tool is described in regard to Integration Testing – as well as Gradle. Dependencies on external resources make integration tests more fragile so faking those make them more robust. Those resources include: databases, the file system, SOAP and REST web services, etc. The most important dependency in any application is the container. The last chapters are dedicated to the Spring framework, including Spring MVC and Java EE.

If you’re already a reader and you like it, please feel free to recommend it. If you don’t, I welcome your feedback in the comments section. Of course, if neither – I encourage you to get a book and see for yourself!