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Sep 13, 20071 min

Week of September 10, 2007

This week’s Java Tip:

Javina writes: “I’m not sure if this is helpful to anyone else, but I’ve worked out a way to get around the problem of unit testing private methods with JUnit. I’d rather not simply make all the methods public because it doesn’t seem right to compromise access control for unit tests. So, I wrote the following helper method …”

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