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Rational Application Development certification prep, Part 6: Debugging and testing Java applications

Matthew Stobo (mstobo@us.ibm.com), IBM Senior IT Specialist, IBM
Matthew Stobo is a Senior IT Specialist for the IGS Sales Team--East supporting WebSphere Application Server. Previously he was a Senior Instructor with IBM IT Education Services, where he developed and taught courses across the Java and WebSphere curricula. He regularly trained employees of Fortune 500 companies, large banks, and various government agencies in the fundamentals of J2EE development using Rational Application Developer and the administration of WebSphere Application Server. He received his Masters of Information Technology Education from Dalhousie University.

Summary:  In this sixth in a series of seven tutorials created to help you prepare for the IBM Certification Test 255, Developing with IBM Rational Application Developer for WebSphere Software V6, learn how to debug and test components of a J2EE application using the Integrated Test Environment of Rational Application Developer and its built-in support for JUnit. Using breakpoints and other features of the Debug Perspective, step through Java code to find possible code breakers. Finish by mastering the art of creating JUnit TestCases and TestSuites and running them inside the development environment.

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Date:  11 Apr 2006
Level:  Intermediate
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Conclusion

You have now seen some of the support that Application Developer has for JUnit. If you are curious about the other debugging and profiling features of Application Developer, be sure to search the help system. A search term to use in the help system is Hyades. If you understand what you have done so far you have a sound understanding of the support that Application Developer has for JUnit.

This concludes our tutorial on testing and debugging in Rational Application Developer.

Good luck with the rest of this series and on your certification exam!

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