Ping-Pong Pairing Over Git
When practicing new programming techniques I am a fan of ping-pong pairing. Ping-pong pairing is a way of pairing with TDD that evenly distributes the amount each programmer spends in…
Komarro – A new interesting mock framework for Java
Mocking is a well-known and estabilished concept in our field of work as developers. There are a lot of frameworks for creating and setting up expectations on mock objects in…
Using RenamingDelegatingContext to mock ContentResolver in Android
Mocking Context Testing in Android can be complex, especially when your component is not isolated from the Android framework. One example of this is when your component is performing file…
Automated Testing is Like Optimizing
I have my roots in the Atari demo scene, so I know the joys of optimizing the inner-loop of a software texture mapper down to the last assembly instruction. The…
Test Driven Development in XCode
Test Driven Development, or TDD for short, is a simple software development practice where unit tests, small focused test cases, drive the development forward. This is most easily explained by…
Mocking static methods in Java system classes
As you may already know PowerMock can be used to easily mock static methods which is normally not possible with standard mock frameworks such as EasyMock, JMock or Mockito. All…
Testing Among the Clouds, Part 2
In a recent post I wrote about the particular problems we've been having with integration testing the Spring LDAP project and the use we've made of Amazon EC2 for solving…
Testing Among the Clouds
One of the major challenges we've been facing in the Spring LDAP project is to make certain that the library works together with different LDAP servers. Different servers behave differently…
Behaviour Driven Development
Test Driven Development is a well established programming technique for creating high quality software. It is less known, however, that TDD is not only a programming technique but also a…