Skip to main content

A Review of Mockito

For this week’s blog on quality assurance, I wanted to review what we learned most recently in class. I decided to watch a relatively short (24 min) tutorial on Mockito. It has been over a week since I’ve seen it, and there’s another few days until we meet again. I could use the refresher before then.

The tutorial I chose to watch was by a YouTuber named Walter Schilling. I thought he explained the concept very well. I will definitely bookmark his page for other concepts that I find challenging.

I thought it was a little bit of a complicated set up. I don’t think it was necessary to see the UML diagrams or as extensive of a walkthrough of how his code worked. He didn’t go excessively in depth, but I understood it pretty well after he gave a  demonstration of the final code in action. (He typed in some inputs and showed what the output would be.) I didn’t need to know as much information on his example code. That’s not what I had come to see.

When he got to the mockito section, I was surprised at how little there seemed to be to it. I remember when we went over it in class, I didn’t think it was a very difficult concept, but I probably could not have done it without a little bit of review. After watching this tutorial, I have renewed my confidence that I am able to do it again.

I could see how someone might not like that his method wasn't polished and rehearsed. He would say something such as, "Why is that giving me an error,” or "I don't think I spelled [my variable name] correctly." It didn't take him long to diagnose any of these problems. I kind of liked this style. It gave me more confidence in my own abilities when I could sometimes diagnose something as quick if not quicker than he did on his own example. (To be fair though, most of them were simple fixes.)

Towards the end of his video, all of his tests were failing, and he couldn’t figure out why for a moment. Something small that I gleaned from this is that no matter how good you get, no one is ever perfect. I have a habit of putting myself down for not knowing everything or making simple mistakes. I should not be quite so hard on myself. Even the experts make mistakes. You could go one step further and say that if they never made mistakes, they would never learn from them and become experts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PgH0PwgEa8
Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Sprint 5 Retrospective (Capstone)

It is a shame that we are so close to the end of the semester. We were gaining so much momentum. It took us a while for us to get off the ground, but once we did, we never stopped gaining speed. I feel we will be able to keep this up through this last sprint. My hopes at the beginning of the semester for what we could accomplish were unrealistically high, but I am not disappointed with what we accomplished. We have not completed a full working component quite yet, but we are very close. I think our efforts are best spent finishing the one we are currently working on and doing it right. If we divided our efforts into starting something new, we run the risk of not fully completing anything. In the sage words of Ron Swanson, “Never half-ass two things. Whole-ass one thing.” If we are able to get the tabs working beautifully, I will be happy with our effort. I have felt that our group has done a phenomenal job this sprint and every sprint before with our communication. We have a few ...
Post a Comment
Read more

Mark Richards on the Evolution of Software Architecture

For this week’s blog on Software Architecture, I listened to Episode 3 of the “Software Architecture Radio” Podcast, which featured Mark Richards, an independent software architect. He has 32 years in the industry, with more than twenty years as a software architect.  They mostly talked about the evolution of software architecture. Although some of the things they talked about went a little over my head, I was able to pick up on the majority of what they were talking about.  He divided up the evolution of architecture into five stages. He talked about evolution happening in vertical and horizontal slices, that is within each layer and one layer affecting those above and around it. The layers were (1) hardware, (2) software, (3) human interaction, (4) social interaction, and (5) the environment, such as the internet of things. He said one thing in particular, need, drives change the fastest. As an aside, he also said that that’s the best way of teaching something i...
1 comment
Read more

Sprint 4 Retrospective (Capstone)

This sprint, in my mind, one of the most important things that I was able to figure out was getting connected to AMPATH team through the Zeplin app. It seems that someone, perhaps accidentally, disconnected me from the group. Once reconnected, I was able to connect the rest of my group. Although it hardly was a difficult task, it is hard to overstate how important it is to be on the same page as the team you are building the product for. It could have prevented a lot of wasted time on our end, and it makes it more likely that they get the end product they want. Probably the most important thing I did in terms of learning about the tools we will be using was creating a “spike.” It is a new term I’ve learned that I will add to my lexicon, meaning to build a prototype of a product, diving deep to learn as much as you can. I touched upon it in my last apprenticeship patterns blog post, on “breakable patterns.” I failed to make a successful working prototype that did everythin...
Post a Comment
Read more