John D. Ament - Arquillian Testing Guide

John D. Ament was born to a beautician and a taxi driver in the warm summer of 1983 in Ridgewood, New York. At the age of six his family moved to the northern suburbs of New Jersey. After graduating from the Rutgers University and working a few short-term IT jobs, he moved to the southern side of New Jersey just outside of Philadelphia, where he has been located for the last seven years.

In 2008, he started participating in the open source community. After working with Spring a bit here and there, he started investigating the Seam framework. After finding use of the framework in a few applications, he started participating more and more with the community.

Eventually, he became the module lead for a couple of components in Seam 3 and started working more and more with open source technologies. This led to more and more community involvement, including participation in the JMS 2.0 Expert Group.

After following through on some test-driven trends, he decided to try out a new framework called Arquillian to help automate some of the testing being performed on a few work-related projects. It surprisingly worked well, to the point of being used to perform all of the automated testing against container deployments of applications he was working on. This drove a lot of passion for the framework and his continued use of the tool today.

First, I would like to thank my mother Joan for all the years of her life she gave me; my father Jack, through the thick and thin he's been there; my sister Jenna; as well as all of my aunts, uncles, and cousins for being there.

I would like to thank my friends, who got to the point of saying "I'm worried" when I wasn't coming around as much.

Also, I want to thank the Arquillian community, in particular Hansty Bai and Jakub Narloch, the reviewers of the book, for all of the questions they received; my coworkers, past and present, for putting up with all of the things I come up with; and the team at Packt Publishing for supporting me.

A portion of the royalties will be donated to the Johns Hopkins University Pancreas Multidisciplinary Cancer Team .

Hantsy Bai is a self-employed freelancer and provides professional Java EE development and consulting service for customers around the world. In the past years, he has participated in many projects in different industries, including telecommunication, e-commerce, electric government management, office solutions for medium-sized and small enterprises, and so on.

He is also an open source practitioner and always likes to taste the new technologies. Working in a company and always keeping up with the popular technologies was impossible, so he quit and worked as a freelancer 4 years ago. This is when his field of vision became wider.

He has written a lot of blog entries about the popular and non-popular open source frameworks and tools. He is active in several Java communities in China, and also a troublemaker in the JBoss.org discussions and has posted many problems he encountered when he was using JBoss products in his projects. In 2012, he received the JBoss Community Recognition Award.

He likes traveling, climbing mountains, and currently lives in Guangzhou, China.

Jakub Narloch is a software developer with over 4 years of professional experience. He graduated in Computer Science at the Warsaw University of Technology with an MSc degree. Currently, he is working as a Software Engineer for an international company. During his career he has been mostly developing JEE and ASP .NET web applications. Besides that, he has a lot of interest in open source projects and contributed code to Arquillian and to other open source projects such as Spring OXM.

I would especially like to thank the Arquillian team and all contributors, because without their awesome work this book would never have been written.