Category: Coding Patterns

JUnit is a popular testing library for Java applications and I extensively used it when working at Amazon for the numerous Java applications and services there. However, I came across a number of different anti-patterns and areas to improve the quality of the test code. This post introduces many of the different tricks and patterns that I’ve learned and shared with my coworkers, and now want to share

Another library to know and reference is Mockito, which I use extensively in JUnit test cases and will reference this too below.

These are all real things that I’ve seen developers do.

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Google Guice is a dependency injection library for Java and I frequently used it on a number of Java services. Compared to Spring, I liked how simple and narrow focused on just dependency injection it was. However, I often times saw developers using it in incorrect or non-ideal patterns that increased boilerplate or were just wrong.

These are all recommendations that I’ve accumulated over several years at working at Amazon watching engineers and sometimes myself improperly leverage Google Guice.

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