As promised, this time I am taking a look at the support that is offered for JUnit 5 now that we are more than 6 months past the official release of JUnit 5. If you have read through the process of developing this test suite, you will be aware that I had to use JUnit’s own JUnitPlatform Gradle plugin to run my test suite. This works just fine, but it is clunky, requires a LOT of code and most frustratingly…
Every rose has its thorn. In the unlikely event that you have read all of my posts, you will be aware that I have had a try at dependency injection before but wasn’t happy enough with the results to push them. After looking at it this week I have managed to understand where my difficulties lie and and implement a solution that works. I’m still not really happy with it, but its enough to be able to get going on…
DI frameworks are painful! This was a tough week and I am afraid that I don’t have any working code for you this week. I still have emotional scars from my attempts to configure dependency injection with Spring at work. After a lot of pain we eventually decided to use Google Guice and with it set up and running I don’t have too many problems adding to my framework. When I do mess it up however I find it very…