02/15/18
Although the use of mock objects is controversial, we as developers have to use them from time to time. The nearly 6000 stars Mockito has on GitHub indicate that others would agree with this statement Read more
01/29/18
It seems that nowadays, the "Don't Repeat Yourself"(DRY) principle is one of the foundations of programming that is criticized the most. Read more
There are things a programmer needs to know, no excuses. There are things you can’t possibly all remember, so it’s... Read more
We aim to please the customer at short notice and always overestimate our capacity to comprehend a system as it gets more complex. That’s a recipe for technical debt. Read more
This is not a tutorial about how to exploit the advanced features in modern mocking frameworks. Rather, it’s a warning that these features work around design decisions that were wrong to begin with. Read more
01/20/16
A study shows that the cause for almost all critical faults is bad error handling. I can back this up with... Read more
01/05/16
TLDR; Writing readable tests is at least as important as writing readable production code. But the standard JUnit tooling won’t... Read more
08/05/14
“The only thing that is constant is change.” – Heraclitus Bonfire of the Vanities Over the last few months, there... Read more
07/17/14
Test the basics There are multiple reasons for tests. Two major reasons are: To prove that a change of the... Read more
