Extras for Eclipse: Neon Update

On July 6, 2016, Posted by , In Eclipse, By ,,, , With Comments Off on Extras for Eclipse: Neon Update

A change in Eclipse Neon made it necessary to update Extras for Eclipse. Unfortunately, the Toggle Full Screen command uses the same key binding, Alt+F11, as the Launch Dialog (see this bug for the details). Hence the key binding for the Launch Dialog had to be changed to Shift+F11. We…

Announcing Extras for Eclipse

Over the last months, I wrote some extensions for the Eclipse IDE that I found were missing and could be implemented with reasonable effort. The outcome is Extras for Eclipse, a collection of small extensions for the Eclipse IDE, which include a launch dialog, a JUnit status bar, a launch…

Testing with JUnit Book Release

On August 31, 2015, Posted by , In JUnit, By ,,, , With 1 Comment

This week, I’m very happy to break the news that Packt Publishing has come out with a JUnit book release, fresh from the press. The title Testing with JUnit, which I had the privilege of writing, is now available in the bookstores. It has been quite some work, but I…

Testing with JUnit Book Announcement

On June 25, 2015, Posted by , In JUnit, By ,,, , With Comments Off on Testing with JUnit Book Announcement

Today, I am very pleased to inform you that Packt Publishing has put out a JUnit book announcement called Testing with JUnit on their website. A couple of months ago I was asked to write a book about one of my favorite topics – testing with JUnit. Needless to say…

Efficient Code Coverage with Eclipse

On April 7, 2014, Posted by , In Eclipse, By ,,,, , With 1 Comment

There is a saying that a fool with a tool is still a fool. But how to use a tool most efficiently is not always obvious to me. Because of this I typically spend some time to check out new playgrounds1 that promise to increase my work speed without impairing…

Getting JUnit Test Names Right

Finding good names is one of the challenges of crafting software. And you need to find them all the time and for everything – classes, methods, variables, just to name a few. But what makes a name a good name? To quote Uncle Bob: ‘Three things: Readability, readability, and readability!’…

More Units with MoreUnit

Just over a year ago I wrote a post about working with JUnit in Eclipse. One of the commenters recommended MoreUnit in order to increase testing efficiency even more. Giving it a try I was delighted and the plugin’s keyboard shortcuts were immediately memorized by my autonomic nervous system… Additionally,…

Working Efficiently with JUnit in Eclipse

On November 26, 2012, Posted by , In Eclipse,JUnit, By ,,,, , With 11 Comments

Recently I was dragged into a discussion1 with some test infected2 fellows about how we use JUnit within the Eclipse IDE. Surprisingly the conversation brought up some ‘tips and tricks’ not everybody was aware of. This gave me the idea to write this post doing a sum up of our…