I am new to unit testing, and I continously hear the words 'mock objects' thrown around a lot. In layman's terms, can someone explain what mock objects are, and what they are typically used for when writing unit tests? ...

I am now learning XmlDocument but I've just ran into XDocument and when I try to search the difference or benefits of them I can't find something useful, could you please tell me why you would use one over another ? ...

...same kind of wisdom as "don't mutate a struct". Erm, why does the runtime and the language supports mutating a struct if that's so bad? Same reason: you shoot yourself in the foot if you don't do it right. Easily. And doing it right requires knowing exactly what it does, which in the case of DoE...

I have an existing iOS app and want to add a large chunk of code that I've been developing as another project just for ease of testing. The new chunk basically deals with saving an image to various sharing services, etc.. Because that sharing code needs a lot of testing and future updating, I was wo...

I have a rather big Android App project that is referencing several library projects. Everything was fine until i upgraded the eclipse ADT plugin to the newest version (v22). I also upgraded the SDK of course. I do not see any compile errors in eclipse, but when i run the project on the phone i get ...

...os on Mac Snow Leopard. I don't know why but all of a sudden my arrow keys and delete button start not working only on Eclipse (so Eclipse ignores them) but the rest of the buttons works just fine. There is no exception/error thrown anywhere on the screen. I don't exactly know how to reproduce this ...

I just heard about the JavaScript methods freeze and seal , which can be used to make any Object immutable. 8 Answers ...

...tatic Metaprogramming in C++" from Generative Programming, Methods, Tools, and Applications by Krzysztof Czarnecki and Ulrich W. Eisenecker, ISBN-13: 9780201309775; and chapter 17, "Metaprograms" of C++ Templates: The Complete Guide by David Vandevoorder and Nicolai M. Josuttis, ISBN-13: 97802017348...

... get stuck with after you work through it, I'd suggest: https://developer.android.com/studio/publish/app-signing.html Okay, a small overview without reference or eclipse around, so leave some space for errors, but it works like this Open your project in eclipse Press right-mouse - > tools (an...

I have seen this mentioned a few times and I am not clear on what it means. When and why would you do this? 32 Answers ...