Someone mentioned a mocking framework called Mockito some time ago to me. I am familiar with mocking frameworks, as I work with EasyMock quite a lot. I really like EasyMock, but I am curious about Mockito. I thought of trying it out a bit and write down my experiences along with a comparison with EasyMock. […]
Here is a little example of code I’ve been faced with (not written by me), that struck me. Although the syntax is correct (it is javascript), it took me a little while to actually understand what is going on. Here is the code: [sourcecode language=”javascript”] someObject: function(data) { return data.json ? data.json.stateObject ? data.json.stateObject : […]
I blogged about tiny refactorings not too long ago. I’ve even added an example showing such a refactoring in my game. I’m reading Refactoring to Patterns, and figured that the refactorings I’ve mentioned have a name; it’s called the Compose Method. In the book it even has its own chapter (Chapter 7 “Simplification”), where it […]
Did you ever need to just have an instance of a class you cannot instantiate because the default constructor is not available? Do you want to create a test instance just to be used in unit tests? Don’t want to break up the design of your code just for testing? This post might help you: […]
More and more I am being intrigued by the power of a small code refactorings. The positive impact it has on the readability, the maintainability and understandability of your code is great. It keeps code clean(er) and since the changes you make are really small (I’ll demonstrate how small), the chance they will break things is […]