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Reasons:
Mastering Unit Testing Using Mockito and Junit by Sujoy Acharya
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Good reading. A complete picture on unit testing across applications layers and frameworks.
The author covers all topics related to unit testing Java based applications using jUnit at several application layers (data, business, web), starting from project setup (using Eclipse, ant, maven, gradle and even jenkins) and ending to tests creation best practices.
Even test beginners can benefit for this book because all explanations are clear and complete.
First four chapters explore unit testing concepts by means of jUnit and Mockito libraries.
Chapter five is dedicated to code coverage using both Eclipse plugins and command line tools (via ant, maven and gradle)
There is also a chapter (#6) dedicated to static code analysys with FindBus, PMD and SonrQube.
Remaining chapters are on web (#7) and data (#8) layers testing, on legacy code testing issues (#9) and, finally, on test best practices (#10).
Executive summary
The implementation of the concurrency primitive LockSupport.parkNanos(), the function that controls *every* concurrency primitive on the JVM, is flawed, and any NTP sync, or system time change backwards, can potentially break it with unexpected results across the board when running a 64bit JVM on Linux 64bit
What we need to do?
This is an old issue, and the bug was declared private. I somehow managed to have the bug reopened to the public, but it’s still a P4, that means that probably won’t be fixed. I think we need to push for a resolution ASAP, be sure that’s in for JDK9, make all the possible effort to make this fix for JDK8 or, at least, to include it in a later patch release. In an ideal world it would be nice to have a patch for JDK7
Why all this urgency?
If a system time change happens then…
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