Book Review: Mockito Essentials

Book Review: Mockito Essentials by Sujoy Acharya

Mockito essentials is a straightforward insight towards writing proper form of unit tests using mockito framework. Targeted at existing developers, this book goes beyond the documented library and explains the method of correctly writing unit tests and its corresponding code.
The book starts by introducing test doubles, or assumptions that we make while writing unit tests which is essentially done through mockito, effectively laying the foundation of the book. Two subsequent chapters are devoted to the innards of the framework - which is very handy if you have mockito's programming reference ready.
However, the main problem of unit test lies in its implementation as real world code is generally not testable and often is unchangeable. Using mockito under BDD tests is also worth mentioning as this concept is not covered elsewhere till now. The book concludes with implementation of mockito based tests over webservices and rich client applications.
Overall, the book not only covers the mockito framework but also covers practical advice regarding testing existing code and making both legacy and new code testable and I'd highly recommend this book if you are looking to write unit tests in java applications.



Disclaimer: I received a copy of this book from packt publication before doing a review.
Access the book here:
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Packt Ebook Bonanza Campaign

I came across this promotional offer from packt publications for this festive season:

Following the success of last year’s festive offer, Packt Publishing will be celebrating the Holiday season with an even bigger $5 offer.
From Thursday 18th December, every eBook and video will be available on the publisher’s website for just $5. Customers are invited to purchase as many as they like before the offer ends on Tuesday January 6th, making it the perfect opportunity to try something new or to take your skills to the next
level as 2015 begins.
With all $5 products available in a range of formats and DRM-free, customers will find great value content delivered exactly how they want it across Packt’s website this Xmas and New Year.

 To avail this offer, visit: http://bit.ly/p5dlr
Or see twitter hashtag #packt5dollar

Packt Ten Year Celebration Campaign - Packt Publishing

Packt Publishing launches an exciting campaign to celebrate 10 years and is offering all eBooks and Videos at just $10 each for 10 days (Till 5th of July). 

This publication has been a boon for open source frameworks - by providing a well formed additional documentation/how-tos for a specific technology. 

Press Release:

Packt’s celebrates 10 years with a special $10 offer

This month marks 10 years since Packt Publishing embarked on its mission to deliver effective 
learning and information services to IT professionals. In that time it’s published over 2000 titles and helped projects become household names, awarding over $400,000 through its Open Source Project Royalty Scheme.

To celebrate this huge milestone, from June 26th $10 each for 10 days – this promotion covers every title and customers can stock up on as many copies as they like until July 5th Dave Maclean, Managing Director explains ‘From our very first book published back in 2004, we’ve always focused on giving IT professionals the actionable knowledge they need to get the job done. 

As we look forward to the next 10 years, everything we do here at Packt will focus on helping those IT professionals, and the wider world, put software to work in innovative new ways. 
We’re very excited to take our customers on this new journey with us, and we would like to thank them for coming this far with this special 10-day celebration, when we’ll be opening up our comprehensive range of titles for $10 each. 

If you’ve already tried a Packt title in the past, you’ll know this is a great opportunity to explore what’s new and maintain your personal and professional development. If you’re new to Packt, then now is the time to try our extensive range – we’re confident that in our 2000+ titles you’ll find the
knowledge you really need , whether that’s specific learning on an emerging technology or the key skills to keep you ahead of the competition in more established tech.’ 

More information is available at www.packtpub.com/10years 

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Packt celebrates International Day Against DRM today, May 6th 2014

Packt publication is celebrating International Day Against DRM today and this is a welcome sign for all the users of this ebook publisher. Personally, I've never been a fan of DRM and have always felt that it only encouraged piracy by harassing the legitimate users.

To mark this occasion, Packt Publication is showing its support for the clause by giving worthwhile discounts as mentioned in their press release:

Packt Publishing firmly believes that you should be able to read and interact with your content when you want, where you want, and how you want – to that end they have been advocates of DRM-free content since their very first eBook was published back in 2004. 
To show their continuing support for Day Against DRM, Packt Publishing is offering all its DRM-free content at $10 for 24 hours only on May 6th eBooks and Videos at www.packtpub.com. 

“Our top priority at Packt has always been to meet the evolving needs of developers 
in the most practical way possible, while at the same time protecting the hard work of our authors. DRM-free content continues to be instrumental in making that happen, providing the flexibility and freedom that is essential for an efficient and enhanced learning experience. That’s why we’ve been DRM-free from the beginning – we’ll never put limits on the innovation of our users.” 
– Dave Maclean, Managing Director

Advocates of Day Against DRM are invited to spread the word and celebrate on May 6th by exploring the full range of DRM-free content at www.packtpub.com, where all eBooks and Videos will be $10 for 24 hours.

Learning just got cheaper - Packt Publication announces all products at half price

For the next 1 day (Till 17th October, 2013), you can purchase any book at half its listed price from Packt Publication. This is greater than offers present earlier as a flat 50% discount is being offered.
As this is being done to celebrate Columbus Day, the code COL50 is to be applied at checkout.

Due to my diverse reading habits, I always have a list of possible ebooks that I might purchase, and this presents a worthwhile opportunity.
Hope you avail this offer too!

(Update) Friday, October 18:  This promo has now extended till Monday, 21st!!
All the more reasons to smile :)

Up Next : Book review on Play framework

Today I received a copy of the book, 'Play Framework Cookbook' by Alexander Reelsen, courtesy its publisher, Packt Publications.

As the name suggests, it covers various recipes regarding the play framework, which is a promising rapid application development framework in java/scala platform.

This is the first instance of any good documentation of this upcoming framework for professionals and looks promising. I will be going over this book for the next few days and would be posting my views about it, stay tuned!