Paper: Test-First Java Concurrency for the Classroom
October 24th, 2009, 3:47 pm by MathiasTest-First Java Concurrency for the Classroom
41st Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE 2010)
Concurrent programming is becoming more important due to the growing dominance of multi-core processors and the prevalence of graphical user interfaces (GUIs). To prepare students for the concurrent future, instructors have begun to address concurrency earlier in their curricula. Unfortunately, test-driven development, which enables students and practitioners to quickly develop reliable single-threaded programs, is not as effective in the domain of concurrent programming. This paper describes how ConcJUnit can simplify the task of writing unit tests for multi-threaded programs, and provides examples that can be used to introduce students to concurrent programming.
