When developing a stand-alone Java program all by yourself, it's typically preferable to do so from an IDE. However, a lot of projects rely on automated compiling and testing and this is really best done from the command line. While you may be used to using jUnit from inside an IDE like IntelliJ, it can […]
This past year has seen the release of an update to jUnit, arguably the most important testing framework in software engineering and computer science. Now in its sixth release, jUnit makes a significant jump to eliminating support in anything before Java 17. When I got started with Java in 2020 most of the teaching material […]
It's important to create test frameworks for your programs. In Java we use the jUnit system to do so. Here is an example of setting up a unit tester to make sure that that a method returns the values it's supposed to. First, let's look at the method. I'm using it to convert values that […]