Sunday 28 October 2012

Easy mocking with Clojure [tech]

Attention conservation notice: Technical post of interest to programmers only. If you just want the link to my mocking system for Clojure, click it.

I hate testing.

I know that when I have a computer checking and re-checking the behaviour of my code, it's more reliable. I know that I can make changes more confidently, knowing that if I accidentally break something, it will probably get caught. I know all this, and yet I am still put off by the sheer tedium of building all the scaffolding any non-trivial piece of code usually needs.

So here's a library to make it easier, in my current favourite language.