This past Saturday, I had the pleasure of attending the Women in Tech Summit as part of Philly Tech Week with one of my fellow women in tech from CapTech's Philly office.  The purpose of the summit was to bring together women in the Philly community that are involved in technology.  I started putting this blog together with the intention of writing about things I had learned and while there were some amazing things that I learned my bigger takeaways were the things that I saw….

Test Driven Development

I have read about it, I have known that it exists but similar to a fabled unicorn, I have never actually seen it. For anyone that may not be familiar with the concept: Test Driven Development (TDD) is a practice where a developer starts with writing an automated test, writes code to validate the test, refractors (cleans) the code, and then starts over from the beginning.

Recently I stumbled onto JMockit and have been pretty impressed with the flexibility of the approach it takes.

Many mocking frameworks seem to take an elitist attitude toward testable code, not attempting to solve certain problems in favor of guiding one toward a more testable design. It appears JMockit is a response to this.