Subtitle: Mastering Open Source Tools Including Ant, JUnit, and Cactus.
A book by
RichardHightower and
NicholasLesiecki ISBN 047120708X.
The reviews on Amazon.com are mostly positive (16 Dec 01); reviews from Wikizens below:
I haven't read the book, but... These tools aren't just for XPers. The title is a little misleading. Ant, specifically, is general purpose, and has no features that are necessary to XP. JUnit, and Cactus, maybe, but unit testing should be a part of every programmers toolbox, whether they're doing XP, or not.
I think that the XP in the title, is there for cache.
I haven't read it either, but I think the idea is more: So you want to do XP? Here are some tools that you can use. Not: Here are some tools that were made for XP.
I was the
TechnicalEditor for this book. The book really addresses two main tenets of XP,
AutomatedTesting, and
ContinuousIntegration. Obviously, the
JavaUnit and related chapters related to
AutomatedTesting. The
ApacheAnt coverage is there to support
ContinuousIntegration.
I haven't yet been able to read the final product, and I didn't get to review the
HttpUnit chapters, though I wanted to. If you have any thoughts or questions, I'd be happy to respond.
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AveryRegier
Would be happy to have a look into the table of contents. anyone?
Here it is:
http://www1.fatbrain.com/asp/BookInfo/BookInfo.asp?theisbn=047120708X&mtype=St&urlset=t&oldurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww1%2Efatbrain%2Ecom%2Fsearch%2Fsearchresults%2Easp%3FSearchFunction%3Dkey%26qtext%3Djava%2Btools%2Bfor%2Bextreme%2Bprogramming%26Submit%2Ex%3D0%26Submit%2Ey%3D0