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 front of the keyboard […]
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 all kinds of different […]
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 system tasks using Context. […]
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 bragging rights of knowing […]
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 the Three Rules of […]
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 you have to do […]
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 these problems. In this […]
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 in certain situations; some […]
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 design methodology. The main […]