The Magic Setter Antipattern

Setters and getter are evil. When the JavaBean definition was created it seemed to be a good idea. But they…

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Quick, Cheap, Quality: choose two

It is old and common wisdom. Even printed on billboard of the mechanics shop where my car is usually repaired.…

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Using junit for something else

junit != unit test Junit is the Java unit testing framework. We use it for unit testing usually, but many…

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Default methods and multiple inheritance

Recently Lukas JOOQ Eder posted and article about nested classes and their use. This is an interesting topic and his…

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Do not unit test bugs

Before getting to the topic of the title let’s have a simple programming sample. On the programming task I will…

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Calling grandparent methods in Java: you can not

In the article Fine points of protection I detailed how “protected” extends the “package private” access. There I wrote: What…

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Fine points of protection

In the article Some Sentences about Java I wrote that “Protected methods and fields can be used from classes in…

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Use copy paste programming!

Copy paste is bad We hate copy paste. Why? Because the result code is unmaintainable. I get a bug reported…

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Outsourcing, Do It Right

Most of the times outsourcing is a nightmare. Companies outsource the activities that are not their core activity nevertheless needed…

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