Invisible to the eye

One criticism of Dependency Injection is the supposed unnecessary abstraction over collaborators that it is imposed by the constructor and ...

...is paved with good intentions. On Thursday I came across the video presentation of a tool to mock static methods in Java : PowerMock c...

Sune wrote to me yesterday with some questions about testing Zend Framework controllers and proper dependency injection, which to me is a ...

You probably know I am a test-infected developer and big proponent of Dependency Injection . You also have seen from the examples in this b...

In the previous post I hacked-up a very small component for automating dependency injection of php classes, which mimic the behavior of the...

There has already been a bit of discussion in the zf-contributors mailing list and in the wiki about the Zend Framework 2.0 roadmap , which...

I just wrote in a comment that Zend Framework 2.x did not yet exist and, today, the lead developer Matthew Weier O'Phinney has posted t...

David Weinraub has written to me asking some basic questions about my last post on dropping unit testing for controllers. I am glad to wri...

Yesterday on twitter a discussion started about how to properly design Zend Framework action controllers to allow simplicity of testing, spe...

During unit tests preparation you often have to modify your design to simplify the test code. Design for testability is one of the good thin...

This blog has grown much during the last month and the newest readers may have missed some important articles in the posts archive, on one o...

This is the second part of the post Object-oriented myths . You may want to read the first part before going forward. In the last post we ...

I think object-oriented programming techniques should be explained with a context and not shouted out loud as philosophical principles. Som...

There is a constant trade-off between levels of abstraction and performance problems in software development and in other fields. We write ...

The architecture of the Zend Framework , one of the most popular php frameworks, is very extensible and presents a lot of hooks for subcla...