Posts about Software Engineering

The Problem Ok, straight up; I have a real bugbear with Utils classes. To me, they’re a real code smell. Like month old milk kinda smell. I gag a little. And like old milk, it only gets worse over time. Let’s back up a bit; what do I mean by a Utils class? They can…

Like most Android projects, our UI tests use the Espresso framework to perform interactions on our test app, check an element is on the page, check the text of an element etc. Although our tests worked they were quite hard to read and it would take a bit of time for someone who hadn’t seen…