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| Re: Test Driven Development Organization [message #1126149 is a reply to message #1125818] |
Sat, 05 October 2013 07:45   |
 Ed Merks
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Registered: July 2009 |
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Mike,
It's not obvious what the errors are; is that your concern? In general,
"real programers" don't define classes in the default package, but
rather use some type of proper package name so that the classes defined
can be used potentially anywhere. I imagine it's also commonly the case
to keep the tests separate (in a separate project) from the thing being
tested. Also keep in mind that this forum is intended to ask questions
about Eclipse and not so much plain old general Java questions, for
which something like StackOverflow is more appropriate...
On 05/10/2013 2:17 AM, Mike McGuire wrote:
> I'm attempting to code using Test-Driven Development, but I'm not sure I understand how things should be set up in Package Explorer. As you can see in the attached screenshot, I'm trying to write a game called Dot-Com. That's what I named the package. Then, with that highlighted, I created two new classes, one of which is my testing class.
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> I may be teaching an Intro to Java Programming class in the spring and want to use best practices. Am I doing this right? Thanks...
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Ed Merks
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| Re: Test Driven Development Organization [message #1126879 is a reply to message #1125818] |
Sun, 06 October 2013 02:59 |
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On 10/04/2013 06:17 PM, Mike McGuire wrote:
> I'm attempting to code using Test-Driven Development, but I'm not sure I understand how things should be set up in Package Explorer. As you can see in the attached screenshot, I'm trying to write a game called Dot-Com. That's what I named the package. Then, with that highlighted, I created two new classes, one of which is my testing class.
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> I may be teaching an Intro to Java Programming class in the spring and want to use best practices. Am I doing this right? Thanks...
Ed gave you some good information. A really good resource for Java-only
questions is javaranch.com. It's very much kinder and gentler.
stackoverflow.com is usually much faster, but not always kinder and gentler.
Anticipating, however, where you're going with this, your
SimpleDotComTestDrive.java code should go on a different path (just as
you suspected). In Eclipse, create that path thus:
1. Right-click your project and choose New -> Source Folder. Name the
new folder "test".
2. Right-click both src and test and create proper new packages in them
(as Ed suggested). (default package) will disappear. Use the same
package name in both places. If you don't personally have a domain name,
then make something up such as mcguire.mike.games. It doesn't matter
what it is as long as you keep it "in-house" and the package name can be
changed any time you want; Eclipse makes this very easy!
3. Right-click SimpleDotCom.java and choose Refactor -> Move and move it
into the new package under src. Do the same thing for your test code
except move it under the new package under the new test subdirectory.
The Eclipse Refactor -> Move command automatically updates the package
name inside your source code.
So, in the end, you should see something like:
SimpleDotComGame
+- src
| +- mcguire.mike.games
| +- SimpleDotCom.java
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+- test
+- mcguire.mike.games
+- SimpleDotComTestDrive.java
Hope this helps. I'll tell you up front that Eclipse defaults to a
simpler project subdirectory format than traditional Java. So expect to
see much greater depth (something like src/main/java/com/domain/...) in
some answers or examples when you look around.
Hope this helps.
Russ
P.S. Eclipse is better!
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