For sure, Java is a great language. I wrote my first Java app 1996 and have had lots of fun with it ever since. But for the past 4-5 years my interest in dynamic programming languages as Python, Groovy and Clojure has increased more and more. When working with other languages you discover a bunch [...]
Magnus Ekstrand
As Martin Fowler states in his article Mocks Aren’t Stubs, mocks are often confused with stubs (or vice versa). It is understandable but there are some distinctions. A common interpretation is that stubs are static classes and mocks are dynamically generated classes by using some mocking framework. But the real difference between them is in the [...]
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It’s best practice to tag each of your stable releases in your version control system for future reference. However, it is very rare that this sort of work is free from failure. Like many tedious, error-prone tasks, it is one of those things that could do with a bit of automation.
Luckily, the [...]
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