My journey with unit testing in Java so far

Alonso Del Arte

Feb 1, 2018·17 min read

These are three of the units in the ring of Eisenstein integers (white dots with white labels). A little off-topic, at least at the beginning.

I am a very recent to the unit testing bandwagon. Perhaps it seemed way too corporate for my taste when I first read about it. But now I’ve come to see that it can be useful even for someone working alone on a hobby Java project.

The first time I read about unit testing, I thought it was kind of pointless and stupid. You write a program that does one thing, and then you write another…