Test-First Design for Java Beginners: Summer 2011

This workshop is sponsored by two NSF DUE CCLI grants:

Integrating Test Design into Computing Curriculum from the Beginning Grant # 0920182

Redesigning Introductory Computing: The Design Discipline Grant # 00618543

Workshop materials: Evaluation

The pre-workshop questionnaire.

Workshop materials: Library pages and Downloads

The tester library.

The javalib libraries for the design of interactive graphics-based games.

All libraries we will use: EclipseJars.zip Download this file, and unzip.

The textbook draft: How to Design Classes pdf

Workshop materials: Labs

• Lab 1 Fundamentals of Test-First Design
• Lab 2 The Variety of Test Scenaria
• Lab 3 Understanding Equality
• Lab 4 A Creative Project
• Lab 5 Content vs. Structure Equality
• Lab 6 Understanding Mutation
• Lab 7 Using Annotations for Testing Flexibility
• Lab 8 HashMap, Set; JUnit
• Lab 9 Stress Tests
• Lab 10 Randomized Testing: QuickCheck
• Lab 11 Code Quality
• Lab 12 Regression Testing; Integration Testing

Workshop schedule

• Day 1: Unit test design in the absence of mutation.

  • Functional Java and Design of Class Hierarchies
  • Function Objects
  • Designing unit tests for mutation-free programs
  • Tests for inexact values

• Day 2: Unit test design for special cases; Equality

  • Understanding Equality
  • Constructor and Exceptions tests
  • World: interactive games
  • Ranges, one-of values, traversals

• Day 3: Unit test design in the presence of mutation

  • Imperative style: mutating an object, mutating structure
  • Imperative World
  • Tests for complex data structures: Trees, Hash Maps, Sets, Circularity

• Day 4: Comprehensive testing strategies

  • Randomized tests
  • Stress tests
  • Black box testing
  • Usability testing
  • Integration tests

• Day 5: Review, Summary, Pedagogical Pointers

  • Code walks
  • Test coverage
  • Discussion