Unit testing is popular for good reason; it helps developers write and maintain correct code. But as the complexity of an object goes up, and as the number of dependencies upon other objects goes up, testing rapidly becomes difficult. This presentation explains what mock objects are, how developers can use them to aid in unit testing, and why designing with interfaces is important to using mock objects.

Brian Gilstrap, a Principal Software Engineer, has been at OCI since 1998. He holds a B.A. in Computer Science from Rice University. Brian has extensive experience with enterprise application security, distributed systems, infrastructure development and management, and user interfaces. After implementing a high performance C++ ORB, he moved on to internet and intranet infrastructure software implemented with Java. He has been working with Java full time since 1996, including extensive development on distributed systems with RMI, CORBA, and Web Services. He is an accomplished Swing developer, and has focused in recent years on enterprise application security.