Here’s the situation: We have a couple of configuration files we use for integration tests. Each of them is a different set of real and mock objects. Some of the objects have behaviors set on them (using Mockito.when) in the… Continue Reading…

After we understand how to use mocks in Spring in integration tests, let’s take a look at a setup for testing a REST service that uses a dependency we want to mock. API testing is a usual integration test scenario,… Continue Reading…

You’d think that we don’t need this kind of post in our day and age, but I still see unit tests written without the assert part.

Well, the video is up. You can also check out the slides here. Great fun presenting there.

Had a very nice time at Agile Greece. Apart from the “Advanced Agile Programming” workshop, I gave a modified version of the “TDD for the rest of us”. Of course, Star Wars light sabers were involved. [slideshare id=66092356&doc=whytddisimportantforeveryone-160916114121]

Anti-patterns are patterns with negative consequences. In this series I’m going to tackle those patterns, explain what they signify in terms of risks, and what to do instead. Let’s look at a pattern common to people who start out on… Continue Reading…

Last time we’ve started talking about how to approach TDD in real, complex systems. While plain vanilla TDD assumes nothing about the world around our component, in real life, there are constraints we need to relate to. Where we stopped,… Continue Reading…