[Engine-devel] Getting rid of PowerMock?

Hi all, As (almost) all of us can see, Running BLL tests both takes considerable time, and also we have to take class loading dependencies between classes with static methods when we use mockStatic - IMHO, this is kinda frustrating. Maybe we should start get rid of PowerMock. Here is what I'm thinking of - Currently, as we use no IoC for DAOs , for tested class we do not use DbFacade.getInstance().getXXXDao() instead we define: protected XXXDao getXXXDao() { return DBFacade.getInstance().getXXXDao(); } And then in our tests we use Mockito to define how getXXDao acts in the test. The following can be achieved also for config values , the following way - protected <T> T getConfig(ConfigValues key) { return Config.<T> GetValue(key); } And then in code (for example, in a query test) - doReturn(5).when(query).<Integer> getConfig(any(ConfigValues.SomeIntegerConstant)); This effort can be done in small steps - a. Define getConfig method in base classes (i.e AuditLoggalbeBase). b. Rewrite parts (i.e Commands, and their tests) step by step (small commits) Thoughts and ideas are more than welcome, Yair