Your mock is a joke
When writing tests I am trying to avoid mock frameworks at any cost. Here is why
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Tests are not a way out of misery
More test equals more quality code and product equation is false. There is one piece missing in that equation.
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Layers of hell
Before reading this post, please read these two articles Your coding conventions are hurting you and The madness of layered architecture. If you understood them and agree with the point, stop reading now. I have nothing to add. Those articles are perfect. The reason I am writing another one is...
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Interface all the things
Every code you write has its cost. It is in form of potential error, of time that is needed to read it, document it and change it. Every line of code needs to pay for its own cost and add some extra in order to be profitable. Is adding interfaces...
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Domain objects rocks!
Today I am going to tell you a little secret. It must be a secret since almost no programmers seems to know about it. Modeling your code based on your domain is the key to maintainable codebase!
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Logger and Unit testing
Have you ever considered using logger as a tool for unit testing your components or even testing logging itself? There is my take on this topic. TLDR version: don’t do it.
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Spring proxies, interfaces and final methods
Bean loading and proxying is topic so basic that I am almost ashamed that it took me so long to solve the problem caused by a simple spring mechanism. Simple bean with one dependency was throwing NullPointerException when using this dependency event if it was injected correctly. How is it...
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Handling Hystrix timeouts
Hystrix is a perfect tool for handling communication with remote systems. One of the topics it covers for you is timeouts. But it might not be as straightforward as it may seem.
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Week notes #4
Week notes numero cuatro.
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Tips for TDD and unit tests
Test driven development is something so elementary for me I can’t imagine writing a code without at least some TDD. Learning TDD was very eye opening for me in many ways. Since then I try to help others “open the eyes”. Once I was asked to do a brief intro...
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Week notes #3
Week summary of posts and links #3.
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Week notes #2
As I mentioned in previous week notes I will sometimes publish older notes. I started to get through my old notes a filter some interesting links. Here they are.
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Anemic philippic
Sometimes we spend so much time thinking how to do something that we stop thinking if we even should do it. The thing in this article is Anemic domain model. Philippic is defined as a ‘damning speech’ and in this post I would like to make some bitter comments against...
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Week notes #1
Short notes from a week
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Classes as Map keys in Java
By accident I came across this interesting class. I suggest you to read its source code, its very unusual. But I struggled to understand the purpose of this class. The reason for its existence is even more interesting.
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