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Good Book On Cactus and HttpUnit

 
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As a beginner, I find it is difficult to learn from the online doc for them. Are there any good books covering these two frameworks? Thanks
 
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It's sad, but Unit testing books don't get alot of respect on the market, and it seems to me, when people write them, they don't write them with love. The books I've seen have been riddled with typos and code errors. I can deal with the typos, but errors in code is unacceptable.

Having said that the two books that deal with Cactus that I've used as references are:

Tools for XP Programming

and

Jakarta Pitfalls, including Cactus

The latter is pretty good for Cactus. I think you'll find both of these books give you some good ideas, but might not give you the depth you're looking for. But then again, a good book shows you how to use the tools - it's up to you to decide what it is you will craft from them.

Happy Unit Testing!

-Cameron McKenzie
 
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Having been one of the proofreaders of both "Junit Recipes" and the german version of "Unit Testing in Java: How Tests Drive the Code" I can assure you that there is a lot of love in them. I'd assume that the same is true for the other books.

Both "JUnit Recipes" and "JUnit in Action" contain tips about Cactus and I think also HttpUnit.

As an aside, I'd rather use HtmlUnit or JWebUnit than HttpUnit - both have a more friendly API.
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