PowerMock can be used to test code normally regarded as untestable! Have you ever heard anyone say that you should never use static or final methods in your code because it makes them impossible to test? Have you ever changed a method from private to protected for the sake of …
While Agile methods have enabled organizations to understand and to adopt more disciplined software development practices, Agile can be taken advantage of by software teams in ways that can lead to less desirable results and even project failure. This presentation tells the story of an agile project staffed with veteran …
Nature abhors a vacuum. It turns out she also abhors static dependencies (I have my sources). Static dependencies are the modern-day globals, often exposed through classes named “Helper”. I’ve certainly been guilty of overusing static dependencies in the past, with classes like “LoggingHelper”, “SessionHelper”, “DBHelper” and so on. The problem …
eSWT, the embedded version of the Eclipse’s Standard Widget Toolkit (SWT) is one of the components introduced by the Eclipse embedded Rich Client Platform (eRCP) project. eSWT can be also be used without the other components of eRCP in the mobile java applications. Using eSWT toolkit java applications can create …
Pex is a white-box test generation tool for .NET. Starting from a hand-written parameterized unit test, Pex analyzes the program-under-test to determine relevant test inputs fully automatically. To this end, Pex executes the program multiple times with different inputs while monitoring the taken execution paths. Pex uses a constraint solver …
During the last 1,5 years Magnus has been working as lead architect in a large (100 MSEK) project at a financial organization in Stockholm. As lead architect Magnus had the responsibility for the solution across multiple development teams and different technical platforms. The project was considered a success when a …