New Feature of JUnit: Theories

A couple of months ago I blogged about JUnit Rules, one of the new features in JUnit. While fooling around with JUnit Rules, I found a couple more features that you might be interested in. So here it comes: Theories! It turns out Theories are really a piece of cake. Try this:

import static org.junit.Assume.assumeTrue;

import org.junit.experimental.theories.DataPoint;

import [...]

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Mixins, Inheritance and Delegation

A week ago I started learning Scala. One of the features I found pretty interesting are mixins and traits. That was just the point of time, when I read this little tweet of GeekyL:
“i am still not sure if mixins are super cool or dark magic.”
Of course I was instantly reminded of the time when [...]

8 Reasons why the Estimates are too low

One of the most difficult tasks in a software development project is estimating the size of the project. Unfortunatly very often  you have to do it at the very beginning of a project, when you have the least information. The result at the end is very often a large difference between the original estimate and [...]

New Project’s Resolution

In a couple of days I’ll start working on a new project. Actually it is an project that I worked one or two years ago. I think I did decent job last time. But there is always lots of room for improvement. So today I want to list a couple of things I want to [...]

Is ISO 9001 obsolete?

I just finished ‘Here Comes Everybody’, a must-read for anybody trying to understand what is going on with all this social media stuff. One point Clay Shirky makes, is that  the various web2.0 tools make failing cheap.
If in the 80s you had an idea for a group to form, you had a lot of things [...]

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