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JUnit 5's Best Features

Tue, 23 April, 12:10 PM - 1:10 PM GMT+5:30

The team that rewrote JUnit in version 5 did a fantastic job improving the platform while maintaining backward compatibility. Many Java developers don't realize how many new cool capabilities have been added to the framework since the initial 5.0 release. This talk will cover topics like the set of useful functional interfaces available, how to do parameterized tests with various sources, lazy loading of error messages, and more.

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About the speaker

Kenneth Kousen

President, Kousen IT, Inc!

Ken Kousen is a Java Champion, several time JavaOne Rock Star, and a Grails Rock Star. He is the author of the Pragmatic Library books “Mockito Made Clear” and “Help Your Boss Help You,” the O'Reilly books “Kotlin Cookbook”, “Modern Java Recipes”, and “Gradle Recipes for Android”, and the Manning book “Making Java Groovy”. He also has recorded over a dozen video courses for the O'Reilly Learning Platform, covering topics related to Android, Spring, Java, Groovy, Grails, and Gradle.

His academic background include BS degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Mathematics from M.I.T., an MA and Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering from Princeton, and an MS in Computer Science from R.P.I. He is currently President of Kousen IT, Inc., based in Connecticut.