Complexity is the path to the dark side
Complexity is the path to the dark side
Hot news!
Mockito just released version 3.4.0 which can now mock static methods.
The eternal holy war: “Maven is better than Gradle”.
Let me share my arguments for why I personally prefer Gradle. I’ve been using it since 2011 in Selenide, RePlay and most of my work projects.
Most often I hear arguments for Maven like these:
Let’s figure it out.
Haven’t you heard that open space is evil?
Somebody asked me this on the internet recently.
No, I haven’t. We have an open space, and everything’s fine, everything works.
Let’s figure it out.
Ahtung!
I recently discovered that Spark framework doesn’t add the HttpOnly attribute to the session cookie.
This means there is a security hole in every web application that uses Spark.
I often say that IFs in tests are evil.
People often ask me why. Here is my answer.
Recently we got a great news.
They released Mockito 2.1.0 - after so many years of hopeless waiting!
There is a lot of cool updates in Mockito 2, including:
Yes! I must use it! - I decided.
What a huge disappointment it was for me…
Six years ago I developed an enterprise project with Spring framework.
We believed that Spring is a bloody enterprise.
We wanted to get rid of this boilerplate.
We were young and courage, we wanted changes.
My interview for jug.ru About Legacy code without maximalism.
Including: TDD, sport, Sherlock Holmes and real men.
Typically you need to create a lot of various objects with various states in your tests. But you don’t always have appropriate constructors, and probably don’t want to have too many constructors.
And Java 8 can help here!
Christmas is a time for miracles. On the eve of the new year we all build plans for the next. And we hope that all problems will leave in the ending year, and a miracle happens in the coming year.
Every Java developer dreams about a miracle that lets him become The Most Effective Java Developer in the world.
I want to show you such a miracle.
It’s called automated tests!
There are “eternal” questions that have no single correct answer. E.g. what is better: Windows or Linux, Java or C#; who is stronger, Chuck Norris or Van Damme. One of such holywars is selection of the best Java IDE.
I have heard many times the term “logic” or “business-logic” in discussions about software development. For instance:
Now tell me, what is “logic”?
TDD is not absolute goodness. Tests can be different.
Let’s consider how bad can be unit-test and how can it evolve.
It is believed that a good program should be well documented.
SUN company even creared a special format javadoc - “a standard for documenting classes Java”. In fact, it was quite a common case in my experience, when a code did not pass Code Review just because some of its methods lacked comments.
Today I’ll tell you why the comments are evil.