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Introducing unit testing with BlueJ

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Andrew Patterson,

Michael Kölling,

John RosenbergAuthors Info & Claims

ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, Volume 35, Issue 3

Pages 11 - 15

https://doi.org/10.1145/961290.961518

Published: 30 June 2003 Publication History

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The teaching of testing has never been easy. The introduction of object orientation into first year courses has made it even more difficult, since more and smaller units need to be tested more often. In professional contexts this is addressed by the use of testing support software. Unfortunately, no adequate software to support testing for introductory students is widely available, leaving teachers and students of first year courses struggling.In this paper we describe an attempt to address this problem by combining two existing systems that partly address our needs. We describe an integration of JUnit into BlueJ, which creates a testing tool that exhibits the flexibility and ease-of-use of the BlueJ system combined with the structured unit test approach provided by JUnit.

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ACM SIGCSE Bulletin Volume 35, Issue 3

Proceedings of the 8th annual conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education

September 2003

277 pages

ISSN:0097-8418

DOI:10.1145/961290

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ITiCSE '03: Proceedings of the 8th annual conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education
June 2003
291 pages
ISBN:1581136722
DOI:10.1145/961511
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Vassilios Dagdilelis
University of Macedonia, Greece
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Maya Satratzemi
University of Macedonia, Greece
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Editor:
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Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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Program Chairs:
Roger Boyle
University of Leeds, UK
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Georgios Evangelidis
University of Macedonia, Greece

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