Software As She’s Developed

As I’ve been doing some travelling, I’ve had to set up podcast clients on my laptop. Two issues: * It’s a hassle to copy podcast client settings from one PC to another. What I like about a service like bloglines is that you’re free to move between PCs. That’s not so easy with Podcast clients which […]

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Cedric rightly points out that JUnit’s “Call super” is a serious antipattern. This happens a lot in my experience too - project-wide test classes that where any special setUp() must call super.setUp(). JUnit has served its purpose admirably, but I think there are now more effective test frameworks (I’d like to check out JBehave, TestNG, […]

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