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... to the digital home of Steven Schwenke.

This site is supposed to be a showcase for my thoughts about software engineering, less a personal homepage. If you want to know more about me, invite me to a beer.

 

Spying with Mockito - to call or not to call a method

14 Apr 2012
Posted by Steven

The other day a weird feature of the testing library Mockito tricked me. Allthough the behavior is mentioned in the documentation, it can not be bad to point it out here. Maybe this article spares someones time debugging his code.

I wanted to write a unit test for the class Controller. Controller uses a method of Blo, a Business Logic Object, to perform its tasks:

Migrating from ExtJS 3 to ExtJS 4

04 Apr 2012
Posted by Steven

If a project lives long enough, it can be a good idea to update one part or the other. That way, new features can be used and the code base is up to date. During the last weeks I updated the frontend of a larger web application from ExtJS 3 to ExtJS 4. A lot of custom CSS rules were used.

My Experiences in Software Engineering - part 2

24 Mar 2011
Posted by Steven

It`s been a while since I wrote about my experiences in Software Engineering. With a new article, I want to extend and review my former report.

Wishlist online

02 Nov 2010
Posted by Steven

I just added a wishlist to my website. Hopefully, that will cause christmas to bring useful presents.

My Experiences in Software Engineering

20 Sep 2010
Posted by Steven

My experiences regarding Software Engineering during the last six months can be found in this article. At the time being, it will only be avalaible in german.

I`m living in Gifhorn now.

12 Jun 2010
Posted by Steven

Short but important change in my life: I moved to Gifhorn to do my internship at Volkswagen.

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