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Real world use-case of “use protected, not private”

August 03rd, 2010 | Category: Software Engineering,Test Driven Development

evil-privateRecently I wrote an article that challenged the software accepted practice of hiding methods away using the private keyword. Instead I suggested that using protected is actually better practice. In this article, I present a real-world example of this philosophy whereby switching from private to protected makes it far easier to unit test one’s code Read more

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