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My friend, and colleague Mark talked about the advantages of being able to do the work we’re doing quickly when we’re driving in a pair programming session. I find it extremely vital to know the environment you’re working in and be able to move around really quickly and be productive. Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V and switching between the keyboard and mouse are things of the past. The future of speed is in the keyboard.

This is why my latest favorite eclipse plugin is moreUnit. It allows you to jump between the test class and the class under test in a keystroke or two. That means you don’t have to move your hand away from the keyboard to the mouse to find the class that you want. And you don’t even have to do any of the following:
1. Ctrl-F6 or Ctrl-E to list the classes that are open, and then going through the list to find the one that you want.
2. Ctrl-Shift-T and typing in the name of the class

moreUnit also does some other nifty things for you. When you rename classes, it will rename the corresponding test classes as well. When you move classes, moreUnit will also move the test classes. If you have multiple test classes i.e. PersonTest, PersonIntegrationTest, PersonSystemTest, you can configure moreUnit to tie all of them to Person.

moreUnit claims that it should assist you in writing more tests. I think it’s just an awesome plugin that helps you navigate your way around better and faster.