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Posted by daniel on January 25, 2005 at 12:08 PM EST

Alternative to JUnit?

The JavaLobby's Matthew Schmidt has written an article on TestNG: Catch the Testing Fever. TestNG has been getting a lot of attention lately and Schmidt shows how easy it is to get going and even how to run your existing JUnit tests. The article ends with instructions on how you can now use TestNG with JDK 1.4.

It's hard to tell, but it seems that for many the question is no longer whether to practice (what you understand to be) test driven development, but what tools to use. For Java the standby has been JUnit. There are problems with it and many people have provided tweaks and add on parts to address those limitations. Development on JUnit itself seems sporadic and slow, but that's the nature of most volunteer open source efforts. Meanwhile, there seems to be a fair amount of attention being pad to TestNG. What do you think? Does it address your needs?

Also in Also in Java Today , in the Core Java Tech Tip Resource Bundle Loading, you are presented with more than one way of loading resource bundles containing text that can be placed in a lookup table to support localization. The tip also compares the performance of a ListResourceBundle approach and a PropertyResourceBundle technique by measuring load times.

Eduardo invites you to chat with him and the JWSDP team in today's Weblogs . In JWSDP 1.5 Chat at Java.Net he writes "The lead engineer for the pack and the lead engineers for the XWS and StAX implementations will be giving a chat on these topic [today], Jan 25th, 2005, at 9 AM PST/17:00 UTC. Chats are good opportunities to get your answers real time directly from the developers."

In Projects and Communities, the Java User Groups community is welcoming the Middle Tennessee Java Users Group, a free, informal, all-volunteer, group of Java/J2EE users mainly working in and around the Nashville area and using the Java/WebSphere technology.

The Java Web Services Developer Pack (Java WSDP) 1.5 is a free integrated toolkit for building testing and deploying XML applications, Web services, and Web applications. Talk to the WSDP engineering team January 25, 9 am PST/17:00 UTC.

Should Java support tuples? In today's Forums MarkF writes "It sounds almost like you want tuples of primitives. I think that, properly implemented, tuples provide exactly what you're talking about. [see full post for code] After using Prolog, Haskell, and Python, I got pretty attached to tuples and tuple-notation. It's one of the things that I really miss when I use Java."

"I like the idea of a before and after construct. I have always wanted something like this for resource management. However I came to the conclusion that you also must prevent the object from being passed out of the block also. [see full post for code] 1. I have some reservations about the before method. Why not put this in the constructor? 2. Should creating ba outside of a beforeafterblock be banned?"

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