Acknowledgments

This book has had input from three independent developers, and we would first like to thank each other for all the hard work and feedback. Well done, and a pat on the back to each other!

A huge thank you goes out to absolutely everyone involved in the Arquillian project, especially Aslak Knutsen, Dan Allen, Bartosz Majsak, and Matous Jobanek. Once you reach the end of the book, we’re sure you’ll understand how much effort has been put into this truly amazing project and how it will aid you in testing software.

The Open Source Software (OSS) community provides many extremely useful tools that enable everyone to test efficiently. Much of the work done on these projects is performed through the tireless and often thankless work contributed by dedicated developers during their free time. We thank you wholeheartedly for your valued efforts. We would like to encourage you, the reader, to also thank these incredible people at every opportunity.

A big thank you to Daniel Bryant and Marcin Grzejszczak for their time discussing contract testing.

Cynthia Kane and Tiffany Taylor, our editors, were invaluable in pushing us forward when our motivation lagged. Writing a book in your spare time is challenging, to say the least. Thank you, Cynthia and Tiffany, for putting up with us. We also thank everyone else at Manning who made this book possible: publisher Marjan Bace and the editorial and production teams.