Useful, but not the definitive book on unit testing

This was the second unit testing book that I read after Hunt & Thomas's /Pragmatic Unit Testing/, and it did an admirable job helping me progress beyond the basics. It has especially good overviews of Test-Driven Development, the guts of JUnit, and mock objects. I found it less useful (i.e. less detailed) when it turned to testing J2EE and database functionality. I found J.B. Rainsberger's /JUnit in Action/ a much more authoritative reference. But this book got back on track at the end with its sections on HTML and GUI testing, which fill in a lot of the gaps in Rainsberger's book. In the end, I give both books 4 stars because they complement each other well, although /JUnit in Action/ is, by far, a much better overall reference.

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