All true craftsmen need the best tools to do their finest work, and programmers are no different. Java Power Tools delivers 30 open source tools designed to improve the development practices of Java developers in any size team or organization. Each chapter includes a series of short articles about one particular tool -- whether it's for build systems, version control, or other aspects of the development process -- giving you the equivalent of 30 short reference books in one package. No matter which development method your team chooses, whether it's Agile, RUP, XP, SCRUM, or one of many others available, Java Power Tools provides practical techniques and tools to help you optimize the process. The book discusses key Java development problem areas and best practices, and focuses on open source tools that can help increase productivity in each area of the development cycle, including:
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Build tools including Ant and Maven 2</li>
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Version control tools such as CVS and Subversion, the two most prominent open source tools</li>
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Quality metrics tools that measure different aspects of code quality, including CheckStyle, PMD, FindBugs and Jupiter</li>
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Technical documentation tools that can help you generate good technical documentation without spending too much effort writing and maintaining it</li>
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Unit Testing tools including JUnit 4, TestNG, and the open source coverage tool Cobertura</li>
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Integration, Load and Performance Testing to integrate performance tests into unit tests, load-test your application, and automatically test web services, Swing interfaces and web interfaces</li>
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Issue management tools including Bugzilla and Trac</li>
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Continuous Integration tools such as Continuum, Cruise Control, LuntBuild and Hudson</li>
</ul>If you are a Java developer, these tools can help improve your development practices, and make your life easier in the process. Lead developers, software architects and people interested in the wider picture will be able to gather from these pages some useful ideas about improving your project infrastructure and best practices.

Java Power Tools

Computers & Technology

Smart, John Ferguson

Programming

O'Reilly Media

Streamline software development with Jenkins, the popular Java-based open source tool that has revolutionized the way teams think about Continuous Integration (CI). This complete guide shows you how to automate your build, integration, release, and deployment processes with Jenkins—and demonstrates how CI can save you time, money, and many headaches.
Ideal for developers, software architects, and project managers, Jenkins: The Definitive Guide is both a CI tutorial and a comprehensive Jenkins reference. Through its wealth of best practices and real-world tips, you'll discover how easy it is to set up a CI service with Jenkins.
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<li>Learn how to install, configure, and secure your Jenkins server</li>
<li>Organize and monitor general-purpose build jobs</li>
<li>Integrate automated tests to verify builds, and set up code quality reporting</li>
<li>Establish effective team notification strategies and techniques</li>
<li>Configure build pipelines, parameterized jobs, matrix builds, and other advanced jobs</li>
<li>Manage a farm of Jenkins servers to run distributed builds</li>
<li>Implement automated deployment and continuous delivery</li>
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Jenkins: The Definitive Guide: Continuous Integration for the Masses

Summary BDD in Action teaches you the Behavior-Driven Development model and shows you how to integrate it into your existing development process. First you'll learn how to apply BDD to requirements analysis to define features that focus your development efforts on underlying business goals. Then, you'll discover how to automate acceptance criteria and use tests to guide and report on the development process. Along the way, you'll apply BDD principles at the coding level to write more maintainable and better documented code. Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications. About the Technology You can't write good software if you don't understand what it's supposed to do. Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) encourages teams to use conversation and concrete examples to build up a shared understanding of how an application should work and which features really matter. With an emerging body of best practices and sophisticated new tools that assist in requirement analysis and test automation, BDD has become a hot, mainstream practice. About the Book BDD in Action teaches you BDD principles and practices and shows you how to integrate them into your existing development process, no matter what language you use. First, you'll apply BDD to requirements analysis so you can focus your development efforts on underlying business goals. Then, you'll discover how to automate acceptance criteria and use tests to guide and report on the development process. Along the way, you'll apply BDD principles at the coding level to write more maintainable and better documented code. No prior experience with BDD is required. What's Inside <ul>
<li>BDD theory and practice</li>
<li>How BDD will affect your team</li>
<li>BDD for acceptance, integration, and unit testing</li>
<li>Examples in Java, .NET, JavaScript, and more</li>
<li>Reporting and living documentation</li>
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 About the Author John Ferguson Smart is a specialist in BDD, automated testing, and software lifecycle development optimization. Table of Contents <ol>PART 1: FIRST STEPS<li>Building software that makes a difference</li>
<li>BDD—the whirlwind tour</li>PART 2: WHAT DO I WANT? DEFINING REQUIREMENTS USING BDD<li>Understanding the business goals: Feature Injection and related techniques</li>
<li>Defining and illustrating features</li>
<li>From examples to executable specifications</li>
<li>Automating the scenarios</li>PART 3: HOW DO I BUILD IT? CODING THE BDD WAY<li>From executable specifications to rock-solid automated acceptance tests</li>
<li>Automating acceptance criteria for the UI layer</li>
<li>Automating acceptance criteria for non-UI requirements</li>
<li>BDD and unit testing</li>PART 4: TAKING BDD FURTHER<li>Living Documentation: reporting and project management</li>
<li>BDD in the build process</li>
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BDD in Action: Behavior-driven development for the whole software lifecycle

Computer Science

Manning Publications

Deliver software that does what it’s supposed to do! Behavior-Driven Development guides your software projects to success with collaboration, communication techniques, and concrete requirements you can turn into automated tests.\nIn BDD in Action, Second Edition you’ll learn how to:\nImplement and improve BDD practices Prioritize features from business goals Facilitate an example mapping session Write automated acceptance tests Scale up your automated acceptance tests Deliver accurate reporting and documentation 
Around half of all software projects fail to deliver on requirements. Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) helps make sure that yours isn’t one of them. Behavior-Driven Development in Action, Second Edition teaches you how to ensure that everyone involved in a software project—from developers to non-technical stakeholders—are in agreement on goals and objectives. It lays out the communication skills, collaborative practices, and useful automation tools that will let you seamlessly succeed with BDD. Now in its second edition, this revised bestseller has been extensively updated with new techniques for incorporating BDD into large-scale and enterprise development practices such as Agile and DevOps.\nForeword by Daniel Terhorst-North.\nPurchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications.\nAbout the Technology\nBehavior-Driven Development is a collaborative software design technique that organizes examples of an application’s desired behavior into a concrete, testable specification. Because the BDD process gathers input from all areas of an organization, it maximizes the likelihood your software will satisfy both end users and business stakeholders. The established collaboration practices and automation strategies in this book will help you maximize the benefits of BDD for your dev team and your business clients.\nAbout the Book\nIn BDD in Action, Second Edition, you’ll learn to seamlessly integrate BDD into your existing development process. This thoroughly revised new edition now shows how to integrate BDD with DevOps and large-scale Agile systems. Practical examples introduce cross-functional team communication skills, leading a successful requirements analysis, and how to set up automated acceptance criteria.\nWhat’s Inside\nHow BDD positively affects teamwork, dynamics, and collaboration with stakeholders Help teams discover and analyze requirements, uncover assumptions, and reduce risks Make acceptance, integration, and unit testing more effective Automate reporting and living documentation to improve transparency 
About the Reader\nFor all development teams. No experience with BDD required. Examples in Java, JavaScript, and TypeScript can be easily expressed in your chosen language.

BDD in Action, Second Edition: Behavior-Driven Development for the whole software lifecycle

Molak, Jan

Manning

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Java Power Tools

Jenkins: The Definitive Guide: Continuous Integration for the Masses

BDD in Action: Behavior-driven development for the whole software lifecycle

BDD in Action, Second Edition: Behavior-Driven Development for the whole software lifecycle