It’s a balance, not a contradiction DAMP and DRY are not contradictory, rather they balance two different aspects of a code’s maintainability. Maintainable code (code that is easy to change) is the ultimate goal here. DAMP (Descriptive And Meaningful Phrases) promotes the readability of the code. To maintain code, you first need to understand the … Read more
I do not unit test private methods. A private method is an implementation detail that should be hidden to the users of the class. Testing private methods breaks encapsulation. If I find that the private method is huge or complex or important enough to require its own tests, I just put it in another class … Read more
Prologue: If you look up the noun mock in the dictionary you will find that one of the definitions of the word is something made as an imitation. Mocking is primarily used in unit testing. An object under test may have dependencies on other (complex) objects. To isolate the behavior of the object you want … Read more
For JUnit 5.x it’s: java -jar junit-platform-console-standalone-<version>.jar <Options> Find a brief summary at https://stackoverflow.com/a/52373592/1431016 and full details at https://junit.org/junit5/docs/current/user-guide/#running-tests-console-launcher For JUnit 4.X it’s really: java -cp .:/usr/share/java/junit.jar org.junit.runner.JUnitCore [test class name] But if you are using JUnit 3.X note the class name is different: java -cp .:/usr/share/java/junit.jar junit.textui.TestRunner [test class name] You might need to … Read more