Mockito Features and Best Practices
This session shows the features and optimal ways to generated mocks, stubs, and spies with Mockito. Find out when tools like Mockito are useful and how best to employ them to diagnose issues in your code.
Features covered will include creating mocks and stubs, mocking final methods and classes, mocking static methods, and spying on existing classes. It will also cover when NOT to use mocks and stubs, so you don't waste time testing the wrong things.
About Kenneth Kousen
Ken Kousen is a Java Champion, several time JavaOne Rock Star, and a Grails Rock Star. He is the author of the Pragmatic Library books “Mockito Made Clear” and “Help Your Boss Help You,” the O'Reilly books “Kotlin Cookbook”, “Modern Java Recipes”, and “Gradle Recipes for Android”, and the Manning book “Making Java Groovy”. He also has recorded over a dozen video courses for the O'Reilly Learning Platform, covering topics related to Android, Spring, Java, Groovy, Grails, and Gradle.
His academic background include BS degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Mathematics from M.I.T., an MA and Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering from Princeton, and an MS in Computer Science from R.P.I. He is currently President of Kousen IT, Inc., based in Connecticut.
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