Root Cause of Singletons
Since I have gotten lots of love/hate mail on the Singletons are Pathological Liars and Where Have All the Singletons Gone I feel obliged to to do some root cause analysis. Lets get the definition...
View ArticleMy main() Method Is Better Than Yours
By Miško Hevery People are good at turning concrete examples into generalization. The other way around, it does not work so well. So when I write about general concepts it is hard for people to know...
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Changing Developer Behaviour, Part II
By Miško Hevery | Republished from alphaITJournal.com In Part I of this series, we took a realistic look at what usually happens when we initiate change. We also took a look at the initial steps of...
View ArticleWhere Have all the “new” Operators Gone?
(the other title: Your Application has a Wiring Problem) In My main() Method Is Better Than Yours we looked into what a main() method should look like. There we introduced a clear separation between...
View ArticleTo “new” or not to “new”…
by Miško Hevery Dependency injection asks us to separate the new operators from the application logic. This separation forces your code to have factories which are responsible for wiring your...
View ArticleDependency Injection Myth: Reference Passing
by Miško Hevery After reading the article on Singletons (the design anti-pattern) and how they are really global variables and dependency injection suggestion to simply pass in the reference to the...
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Testability Explorer: Measuring Testability
Testability Explorer: Using Byte-Code Analysis to Engineer Lasting Social Changes in an Organization’s Software Development Process. (Or How to Get Developers to Write Testable Code) Presented at 2008...
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My Unified Theory of Bugs
by Miško Hevery I think of bugs as being classified into three fundamental kinds of bugs. Logical: Logical bug is the most common and classical “bug.” This is your “if”s, “loop”s, and other logic in...
View ArticleInterfacing with hard-to-test third-party code
by Miško Hevery Shahar asks an excellent question about how to deal with frameworks which we use in our projects, but which were not written with testability in mind. Hi Misko, First I would like to...
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When to use Dependency Injection
by Miško Hevery A great question from the reader… The only thing that does not fully convince me in your articles is usage of Guice. I’m currently unable to see clearly its advantages over plain...
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