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Never return Null Arrays – really?

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Scott Selikoff recently posted that we should “never return null arrays”. I’m not sure I entirely agree. Both the tone of the article and the comments so far seem to be in agreement, but I am still not so sure. I’ll skip the terminology issue for the moment, just note that an array in Java …

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mockito 1.5 and spying on objects

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Mockito is a Java Mock objects framework which seems more usable than either of the main contenders (JMock and EasyMock). The project has just released a new version which now allows the attachment of a mock “overlay” to an existing object. This has been on my “evaluate” stack for months, but (as Harry Pynn pointed …

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