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usiness Rules are pervasive in software. In fact, in most cases, business rules are the very reason for the existence of most software today. As application architectures become more and
n the course of my consulting, I have reviewed numerous applications from many companies?and often find areas where the software was just too complex. The reasons for this are varied,
o test a class, a developer must make sure that the class’s dependencies won’t interfere with its unit tests. Enter mocks and stubs. Unit tests check on the behavior of
ohsuke Kawaguchi, a staff engineer at Sun Microsystems, released Hudson in February of 2005. Since that time, Java developers have adopted Hudson as their continuous integration server in greater and
n an application built with object-oriented techniques, objects are the bricks. You construct little pieces of code encapsulated in these bricks. To build bigger structures, you need to hold these
ack in the days of our fathers, programming meant focusing on learning one language, one platform, and one environment, and mastering it over a span of years. Those years are
n the surface, this article is about the techniques of dependency injection and inversion of control. Underneath, however, the article is intended to get you to think about the questions
ecently I started working with a client who was interested in using Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) in a custom application. Having never used WF before, I thought it might be