The Disco Blog

Here are this week’s disco links:

• Beware Of JUnit’s assertEquals for Primitive Array- CK Lee finds a problem in JUnit, but don’t fret, David Saff of the JUnit project ensures it’ll be fixed in a jiffy!
• I like refactoring and I can not lie- This ain’t no disco, baby!
• Enabling assertions for all Eclipse launch configurations- Not bad– asserts can be quite useful.
• Making JUnit 4 backwards compatible- Yours truly shows how to get JUnit 4 tests to run in older versions of Ant.
• Martin Fowler on Why Mocks Aren’t Stubs- Artima has a good thread here regarding an update to Martin’s classic essay.
• Urbancode announces AnthillPro 3.1.2- The guys behind Anthill are pretty cool cats– they have an excellent product too.
• Groovy Eclipse Plugin Updated Including Basic Code Completion- Keep up the great work Scott!
• Book Excerpt: Groovy in Action- Speaking of Groovy, this week Groovy in Action was published– while I may be biased, in my opinion, this book is quite groovy, man.
• Downcasting is a Code Smell- Jeremy Miller has some hip entries– I always enjoy his posts!