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Experience: Introducing JMockit To The Team

October 25, 2017 Nikhil Wanpal Comments 0 Comment

Like many codebases out there, our codebase at work had a backlog on unit & integration tests and it was high time we covered it up. So one fine day, it was decided that we shall no longer accept code without tests. Then the question of ‘how do we write tests’ came up. As one of the architects on the team I introduced the methodology of unit/integration testing and a mocking library (JMockit) to aid in cases where testing could…

Opinionless Comparison of Spring And Guice as DI frameworks

October 1, 2016 Nikhil Wanpal Comments 0 Comment

Recently I had to delve into the play framework for a particular microservice at work. Now it is not exactly new, nor is Guice, nor DI, but coming from Spring world it was still a big shift in approach. There is a lot of documentation comparing Spring with Guice, stating which is better, why and how. In general these articles discuss specific points where these two frameworks differ in their approaches and which approach seems better to the author. I…