Q 4 Mr. Hunt & Mr Thomas (1): level of detail

[Gian Franco]

Dear authors,
I'm new to unit testing. I've got Junit working om my machine,
which was a piece of cake.

I was wondering whether your book goes into 'spoon feeding'
detail for setting up tests for database classes for example?
Or is this information more general and to be distilled from
the topics you cover?

Thank you,

Gian Franco Casula.

[Lasse Koskela]

As a side note, you might be interested in a decent little article published in our December 2003 JavaRanch Journal:
Unit Testing Database Code

[Jason Menard]

The book does not delve into the specifics of testing the various J2EE components which make up an app, such as the database components, the web components, etc...
There's a review of the book here if you're interested. The Table of Contents is also available as a pdf.

[Andy Hunt]

Hi,
We do not go into specific detail on testing database components. "Spoon feeding", in general, only teaches one the shape of the spoon :-)
What we do talk about a lot are the various sorts of things you may want to consider while testing. In other words, how to answer the kwy question "what ELSE could go wrong". Being able to envison the likely failure scenarios is a key skill needed for sucessfull unit testing, and I'd like to think that our book really helps people grow that particular skill.

[Ko Ko Naing]

Originally posted by Andy Hunt:
What we do talk about a lot are the various sorts of things you may want to consider while testing. In other words, how to answer the kwy question "what ELSE could go wrong".

It seems like the book helps the readers to improve in analyzing skill, rather than technical skill on testing process... In my opinion, one should possess pretty enough technical skill in order to improve his/her analyzing skill on testing process...
It'll be very nice, if someone can comment on my opinion...