Review of the Getting Started with Guava book

Hi!

I didn't have much time to write posts recently (beacuse of work and my book "Mockito Instant") but I came across Bill Bejeck's book entitled "Getting Started with Guava". After having read it I decided that I will try also to blog about computer science related books. So without any futher ado let's move to the review :)

Mockito Instant - my book has finally been published!

I am very pleased to announce that my book about Mockito entitled "Mockito Instant" has finally been published! You can buy it at Packt Publishing online shop.

Injecting Test Doubles in Spring using Mockito and BeanPostProcessors

I'm pretty sure that if you have ever used Spring and are familliar with unit testing, you have encountered a problem related to injecting mocks / spies (Test Doubles) in the Spring's application context which you wouldn't want to modify. This article presents an approach how to solve this issue using Spring's components.

Spock - return nested spies / mocks

Hi! Some time ago I have written an article about Mockito and using RETURNS_DEEP_STUBS when working with JAXB. Quite recently we have faced a similliar issue with deeply nesetd JAXB and the awesome testing framework written in Groovy called Spock. Natively Spock does not support creating deep stubs or spies so we needed to create a workaround for it and this article will show you how to do it.

The Essential Drools Cheat Sheet at DZone is out!

Hi! I'm pleased to announce that Maro Fusco's and mine DZone Refcard - The Essential Drools Cheat Sheet is out at http://refcardz.dzone.com/refcardz/drools. Hope you enjoy it :)

Mockito - Extra Interfaces with annotations and static methods

In the code I have quite recently came across a really bad piece of code that based on class casting in terms of performing some actions on objects. Of course the code needed to be refactored but sometimes you can't do it / or don't want to do it (and it should be understandable) if first you don't have unit tests of that functionality. In the following post I will show how to test such code, how to refactor it and in fact what I think about such code ;)

Mockito - RETURNS_DEEP_STUBS for JAXB

Sorry for not having written for some time but I was busy with writing the JBoss Drools Refcard for DZone and I am in the middle of writing a book about Mockito so I don't have too much time left for blogging...

Anyway quite recently on my current project I had an interesting situation regarding unit testing with Mockito and JAXB structures. We have very deeply nested JAXB structures generated from schemas that are provided for us which means that we can't change it in anyway.