Test Blight
Another Bliki entry related post; I’m not sure I would refer to what is described in the article as Test Cancer, I would say it is Test Blight. As soon as one test is switched off it weakens all the...
View ArticleShtop! You’re copying the wrong JUnit!
I have been using JUnit 4.4 on my most recent project and this time instead of just licking around the edges I have actually being trying to use the features it adds. This time I have actually switched...
View ArticleThree Little Mockers
At my last client I got the unusual chance to try three Java mocking frameworks within the same project. The project had started to use EasyMock as the project team felt that Mockito didn’t really have...
View ArticleCode Coverage 90% meaningless
I have always been quite sceptical about the value of code coverage metrics. Most of the teams I have seen who have been productive and produced code with few defects in production have not used code...
View ArticleGood magic, bad magic
Philip Potter pinged me his post on Sinatra magic during the week. Mark Needham’s comment and code on solving the mocking problem is good advice to the problem as posed. At Wazoku where we use the...
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