Unit Testing in Java: How Tests Drive the Code (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Software Engineering and Programming)

Johannes Link

With Contributions by Peter Fr hlich

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Title of German original: Unit Tests Mit Java

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Link, Johannes. Unit testing in Java : how tests drive the code / by Johannes Link ; with contribu- tions by Peter Fr hlich. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Computer software—Testing. 2. Java (Computer program language) I. Fr hlich, Peter. II. Title.

QA76.76.T48L55 2003

005.1'4—dc21

Morgan Kaufmann ISBN: 1-55860-868-0

dPunkt ISBN: 3-89864-150-3

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Johannes Link has been project manager and software developer for four years at andrena objects ag in Karlsruhe, Germany. He came to andrena after years of practical software engineering research at the German Cancer Research Center and the German ABB Corporate Research Center. Johannes is responsible for andrena's internal and external training activities and has published articles on software testing and software development. He holds a diploma degree in medical computer science from Heidelberg University.

Peter Fr hlich holds an M.S. in computer science from the University of Aachen and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Hannover. From 1998 to 2002, he worked for ABB Corporate Research as a developer, process improvement consultant, project manager, and manager of a research group. Since 2002, he has worked for Robert Bosch GmbH as a software architect. His research interests include process improvement, conceptual modeling, software architecture, and testing.