• What are building tools

  
  There many Java Build tools available for the Java programmers. These tools help the programmer to build their project efficiently. Build process is repetitive process where programmer builds the project again and again to test the changes in the project code. While developing a project code changes needs to be test and the testing requires the build of the code and finally deploying on the server for testing. Build tools automate the repetitive process and allows the programmer to concentrate on the project development. It also reduces the overall build time. Build tools makes the build process just a single click work. Here are the list of build tools available in Java:
  

  Types of building tools

  • Ant
  • Maven
  • Xdoclet

• why we use building tools

  There many Java Build tools available for the Java programmers. These tools help the programmer to build their project efficiently. Build process is repetitive process where programmer builds the project again and again to test the changes in the project code. While developing a project code changes needs to be test and the testing requires the build of the code and finally deploying on the server for testing. Build tools automate the repetitive process and allows the programmer to concentrate on the project development. It also reduces the overall build time. Build tools makes the build process just a single click work. Here are the list of build tools available in Java:

• Types of Building tools

  What are testing tools ?

  
  Testing tools are a form of automated testing. It is basically using programs to do different testing tasks i.e. doing the tests through some form of automated method. They are computerized and help in assisting every type of testing. Some of these testing tasks include checking the conditions, also checking the predicted results with the actual results along with many other types of testing involved. A lot of these testing tools have commonly used coding languages such as Java and C. The testing tools themselves have been made using these programming languages. A lot of the tools used have different options available to help with testing. This can be very useful when producing the essential reports of that particular product.
  

  Different Methodologies Used For Testing

  
  There are different methodologies that are can be used when implementing testing tools. The testing methodologies can be used together or individually. It all depends on what you are testing as they provide better resources for different tasks. Below are a few of the main different types that are used but there are other types of testing that can be used:
  

  Unit Testing

  This is the software used for verification and validation. It's a method in which the programmer can test all the separate code and see if it is viable to use. This type of testing is based on a small scale and uses small units of the program. When looking at procedural programming the unit can be any individual function or a procedure which is written in the same language as the production code.
  

  White Box Testing

  This is also known as clear box testing, glass box testing, translucent box testing or structural testing. It uses the internal perspective of the system and then designs test cases based on this internal structure. Basically the code itself and all the conditions, statements and paths along with it are tested. Programming skills are required for noticing all the paths through the software. White box testing does many things such as analyzing the data flow, control flow, information flow and coding practices.
  

  Regression Testing

  This is a type of software testing which basically looks for software regressions. The regressions can happen whenever the software stops working as it is meant to. The testing makes sure that any bugs or changes have been fixed which may have caused previous working functions to have failed as a result of the newly added features. It is better to do this type of testing under the automated tool environment. The regression testing may take place once the programmer has tried to fix a problem or has purposely added in code to give out errors.
  

  Integration Testing

  This is where the separate software modules are put together and are then tested as a whole. This normally takes place after unit testing has been done. The point of doing integration testing is because it verifies the functional and performance requirements of the design items. It is component of Extreme Programming (XP). Two different ways of doing integration testing is bottom-up and top-down.

System Requirement

Step 1 - verify Java installation in your machine

Step 2: Set JAVA environment

Step 3: Download Maven archive

Step 4: Extract the Maven archive

Step 5: Set Maven environment variables

Step 6: Add Maven bin directory location to system path

Step 8: Verify Maven installation

• You can run Maven goals from Eclipse.
• You can view the output of Maven commands inside the Eclipse using its own console.
• You can update maven dependencies with IDE.
• You can Launch Maven builds from within Eclipse.
• It does the dependency management for Eclipse build path based on Maven's pom.xml.
• It resolves Maven dependencies from the Eclipse workspace without installing to local Maven repository (requires dependency project be in same workspace).
• It automatic downloads required dependencies and sources from the remote Maven repositories.
• It provides wizards for creating new Maven projects, pom.xml and to enable Maven support on existing projects
• It provides quick search for dependencies in remote Maven repositories

Installing m2eclipse plugin

Import a maven project in Eclipse

• Open Eclipse.
• Select File > Import > option.
• Select Maven Projects Option. Click on Next Button.

• Select Project location, where a project was created using Maven. We've create a Java Project consumerBanking.See Maven Creating Project to see how to create a project using Maven.
• Click Finish Button.

• Right Click on consumerBanking project to open context menu.
• Select Run as option
• Then maven package option

[INFO] Scanning for projects...
[INFO] -------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Building consumerBanking
[INFO] 
[INFO] Id: com.companyname.bank:consumerBanking:jar:1.0-SNAPSHOT
[INFO] task-segment: [package]
[INFO] -------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] [resources:resources]
[INFO] Using default encoding to copy filtered resources.
[INFO] [compiler:compile]
[INFO] Nothing to compile - all classes are up to date
[INFO] [resources:testResources]
[INFO] Using default encoding to copy filtered resources.
[INFO] [compiler:testCompile]
[INFO] Nothing to compile - all classes are up to date
[INFO] [surefire:test]
[INFO] Surefire report directory: 
C:\MVN\consumerBanking\target\surefire-reports

-------------------------------------------------------
 T E S T S
-------------------------------------------------------
Running com.companyname.bank.AppTest
Tests run: 1, Failures: 0, Errors: 0, Skipped: 0, Time elapsed: 0.047 sec

Results :

Tests run: 1, Failures: 0, Errors: 0, Skipped: 0

[INFO] [jar:jar]
[INFO] -------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] BUILD SUCCESSFUL
[INFO] -------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time: 1 second
[INFO] Finished at: Thu Jul 12 18:18:24 IST 2012
[INFO] Final Memory: 2M/15M
[INFO] -------------------------------------------------------------------

Hello World!

• You can run Maven goals from NetBeans.
• You can can view the output of Maven commands inside the NetBeans using its own console.
• You can update maven dependencies with IDE.
• You can Launch Maven builds from within NetBeans.
• NetBeans does the dependency management automatically based on Maven's pom.xml.
• NetBeans resolves Maven dependencies from its workspace without installing to local Maven repository (requires dependency project be in same workspace).
• NetBeans automatic downloads required dependencies and sources from the remote Maven repositories.
• NetBeans provides wizards for creating new Maven projects, pom.xml
• NetBeans provides a Maven Repository browser that enables you to view your local repository and registered external Maven repositories.

Open a maven project in NetBeans

• Open NetBeans.
• Select File Menu > Open Project option.
• Select Project location, where a project was created using Maven. We've create a Java Project consumerBanking.See Maven Creating Project to see how to create a project using Maven.

Build a maven project in NetBeans

• Right Click on consumerBanking project to open context menu.
• Select Clean and Build as option

NetBeans: Executing 'mvn.bat -Dnetbeans.execution=true clean install'
NetBeans:      JAVA_HOME=C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_21
Scanning for projects...
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Building consumerBanking
   task-segment: [clean, install]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
[clean:clean]
[resources:resources]
[WARNING] Using platform encoding (Cp1252 actually)
to copy filtered resources, i.e. build is platform dependent!
skip non existing resourceDirectory C:\MVN\consumerBanking\src\main\resources
[compiler:compile]
Compiling 2 source files to C:\MVN\consumerBanking\target\classes
[resources:testResources]
[WARNING] Using platform encoding (Cp1252 actually)
to copy filtered resources, i.e. build is platform dependent!
skip non existing resourceDirectory C:\MVN\consumerBanking\src\test\resources
[compiler:testCompile]
Compiling 1 source file to C:\MVN\consumerBanking\target\test-classes
[surefire:test]
Surefire report directory: C:\MVN\consumerBanking\target\surefire-reports

-------------------------------------------------------
 T E S T S
-------------------------------------------------------
Running com.companyname.bank.AppTest
Tests run: 1, Failures: 0, Errors: 0, Skipped: 0, Time elapsed: 0.023 sec

Results :

Tests run: 1, Failures: 0, Errors: 0, Skipped: 0

[jar:jar]
Building jar: C:\MVN\consumerBanking\target\consumerBanking-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar
[install:install]
Installing C:\MVN\consumerBanking\target\consumerBanking-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar
to C:\Users\GB3824\.m2\repository\com\companyname\bank\consumerBanking\
1.0-SNAPSHOT\consumerBanking-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar
------------------------------------------------------------------------
BUILD SUCCESSFUL
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Total time: 9 seconds
Finished at: Thu Jul 19 12:57:28 IST 2012
Final Memory: 16M/85M
------------------------------------------------------------------------

Run Application in NetBeans

NetBeans: Executing 'mvn.bat -Dexec.classpathScope=runtime 
-Dexec.args=-classpath %classpath com.companyname.bank.App 
-Dexec.executable=C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_21\bin\java.exe 
-Dnetbeans.execution=true process-classes 
org.codehaus.mojo:exec-maven-plugin:1.1.1:exec'
NetBeans:      JAVA_HOME=C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_21
Scanning for projects...
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Building consumerBanking
   task-segment: [process-classes, 
   org.codehaus.mojo:exec-maven-plugin:1.1.1:exec]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
[resources:resources]
[WARNING] Using platform encoding (Cp1252 actually) 
to copy filtered resources, i.e. build is platform dependent!
skip non existing resourceDirectory C:\MVN\consumerBanking\src\main\resources
[compiler:compile]
Nothing to compile - all classes are up to date
[exec:exec]
Hello World!
------------------------------------------------------------------------
BUILD SUCCESSFUL
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Total time: 1 second
Finished at: Thu Jul 19 14:18:13 IST 2012
Final Memory: 7M/64M
------------------------------------------------------------------------

• You can run Maven goals from IntelliJ IDEA.
• You can can view the output of Maven commands inside the IntelliJ IDEA using its own console.
• You can update maven dependencies within IDE.
• You can Launch Maven builds from within IntelliJ IDEA.
• IntelliJ IDEA does the dependency management automatically based on Maven's pom.xml.
• IntelliJ IDEA resolves Maven dependencies from its workspace without installing to local Maven repository (requires dependency project be in same workspace).
• IntelliJ IDEA automatic downloads required dependencies and sources from the remote Maven repositories.
• IntelliJ IDEA provides wizards for creating new Maven projects, pom.xml

Create a new project in IntelliJ IDEA

• Open IntelliJ IDEA.
• Select File Menu > New Project Option.
• Select import project from existing model.

• Select Maven option

• Select Project location, where a project was created using Maven. We've create a Java Project consumerBanking.See Maven Creating Project to see how to create a project using Maven.

• Select Maven project to import.

• Enter name of the project and click finish.

Build a maven project in IntelliJ IDEA

• Select consumerBanking project.
• Select Buid menu > Rebuild Project Option

4:01:56 PM Compilation completed successfully

Run Application in IntelliJ IDEA

• Select consumerBanking project.
• Right click on App.java to open context menu.
• select Run App.main()

"C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_21\bin\java"
-Didea.launcher.port=7533 
"-Didea.launcher.bin.path=
C:\Program Files\JetBrains\IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition 11.1.2\bin"
-Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 
-classpath "C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_21\jre\lib\charsets.jar;
C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_21\jre\lib\deploy.jar;
C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_21\jre\lib\javaws.jar;
C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_21\jre\lib\jce.jar;
C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_21\jre\lib\jsse.jar;
C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_21\jre\lib\management-agent.jar;
C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_21\jre\lib\plugin.jar;
C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_21\jre\lib\resources.jar;
C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_21\jre\lib\rt.jar;
C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_21\jre\lib\ext\dnsns.jar;
C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_21\jre\lib\ext\localedata.jar;
C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_21\jre\lib\ext\sunjce_provider.jar;
C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_21\jre\lib\ext\sunmscapi.jar;
C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_21\jre\lib\ext\sunpkcs11.jar
C:\MVN\consumerBanking\target\classes;
C:\Program Files\JetBrains\
IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition 11.1.2\lib\idea_rt.jar" 
com.intellij.rt.execution.application.AppMain com.companyname.bank.App
Hello World!

Process finished with exit code 0