Questions tagged [dependencies]
Dependency is a broad software engineering term used to refer to when a piece of software relies on another one. A requirement & prerequisite that must be fulfilled or installed before your code or software can function.
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Should unit tests assert the inputs to dependencies?
tl;dr: Is it a unit test or an integration test, to ensure that the inputs to a mocked dependency were correct?
More details:
Suppose I'm given a requirement like this:
Create a function that returns ...
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How to manage microservice dependencies in local development?
I'm currently developing two microservices to be deployed on kubernetes, but already facing problems to onboard another person to work on a feature in microservice A.
The dependencies are as follows
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What do you call a dependency that “leaks” to client code? What do you call one that doesn't?
Let's say you have a library StuffDoer which calls an external library MagicWizard to do its stuff. Then you add a reference to StuffDoer in UsefulApp.
In some scenarios, referencing StuffDoer ...
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How can I use the Factory pattern and expose my factories to consuming code without introducing transitive dependencies on the constructed types?
I have a C# class called FileTransferManager. Previously it took some parameters such as a username and password to connect to a FTP server. However now I have an additional requirement to support ...
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What is the relation between edges in a dependency graph and the program call to create a vertex?
A Makefile is a representation of a depency graph. The files are the vertices, for example somefunctions.h, somefunctions.c and myprogram.c are the "input" vertices (is there a formal word ...
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How much of the frontend functionality should be mirrored in the API?
QA here. Relatively new to API testing (manual). Thought I'd turn to the experts to try and figure out if my expectations around how much functionality should sit in the API are more or less valid.
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Dependency Injector and Collections
I have been searching for an answer in this topic but I haven’t been able to find a satisfactory one like in other topics, where the consensus is solid.
The situation
To keep things simple: I am ...
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distributing application for windows with dlib
I wrote an application which uses dlib library.
I use appveyor to build both (dlib and my app) for windows and it works perfectly fine (I do not have windows on my machine).
The problem is that on ...
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May I and should I include my dependencies in the jar i publish online?
I'm developing a java project that I'd eventually like to publish and make open source.
To make a executable jar file I use the maven-assembly-plugin. This includes my dependencies in the jar, which ...
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Method call order dependency
I have two camera devices that are able to find a specific hardware illuminated point in an image, as well as measuring the physical distance to the surface (and some more stuff I chose to leave out, ...
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Is it ok copying code from one application to another, both belonging to the same repository, to keep them independent?
Given a repository which contains two different applications A and B (e.g. bootloader and RTOS), is it ok to copy source code from A to B in order to avoid dependencies (include's, adding A source ...
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Clean approach for designing data related dependencies between different systems
I have the following situation in my current project:
There is a system A which exports data, that will be consumed by system B.
System A is something like a webshop which exports data like orders to ...
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Why are minor versions of dependencies pinned, despite possibly having bugs?
I am an amateur developper and I deploy my (home oriented) code to containers. This is usually Python and JavaScript.
JavaScript, when saving dependencies for a further npm install, will pin the ...
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Simple circular dependency between three classes
I have this basic design with a circular dependency. Is there any solution for this? The problem is that a Machine cannot be created if a Model for that Team has been submitted.
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Is there a convenient way to include only a particular snapshot of a git repository inside another project?
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I think I may have found one possible solution for this question: git worktree. I'll have to investigate its exact workings a bit more, because I'm not entirely sure yet if it can do what I ...
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How to abstract my development environment from external depencies
I am trying to build an API server. For the register operation I send an email to the given email address and wait for user to activate his account by using the code in the email that i sent.
I use ...
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Layered architecture horizontal dependencies
I'm working on a spring boot REST service.
It's divided into three layers: REST controllers, services, persistence/DAO.
We have multiple services and persistence repositories. We have the following ...
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how to manage build and deployments from Multi repos using versions
Consider you have two repos A, B.
Let say repo A has some infrastructure code - not needed to be updated always-
but it has the code for the service we want to deploy as infra.
On the other hand, ...
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Should class dependencies be organized in tree structure?
Is it doable, desirable to organize project classes, dependencies in Tree/DAG structure?
To be more specific. In applications (not libraries) we have always some entry point, am I right? Some main ...
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What's the correct Git flow to develop on two independent features + one feature that relies on both?
I'm trying to find the correct flow to manage this kind of development, where A and B are two independent features, and C is a third feature that relies on A and B.
An obvious approach would be to ...
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Backward compatibility testing
As a creator of a software library, how can I verify backward compatibility with earlier versions?
When using a dependency management (here: Maven), multiple versions of my dependency could be (...
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Aggregate small spring-boot REST services into a big one as dependencies
I have build several small REST services based on spring-boot. Each of this REST service has an own database, own configuration and can run independently without the other services. Each service is ...
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Are there downsides to putting dll dependencies in version control?
I'm working on a multiplatform CMake project that depends on SDL2. I'm currently putting the SDL2 dlls in a directory in my project and committing them through git-lfs. A post-build CMake step is then ...
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What is the difference between a library and a dependency?
In this docker beginner video its explained, that different stacks may depend on different libraries and dependencies and that this can be handled with Docker.
However, I don't get what the ...
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How do projects manage security with so many dependencies in open source projects?
Some node.js libraries (just as an example) can pull in literally hundreds of dependencies. Some of these dependencies are small packages that only have one contributor. Often times the contributor ...
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Where can I put project dependencies
I've just finished my studies in Computer Science and now I'm working.
The problem is I'm the only computer scientist in my company and I'm probably taking a lot of bad habits. I would like to correct ...
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Should I pull to another job workspace or should I push from it the 2nd job dependencies?
I have a question regarding CI/CD procedure. I do have 2 Jenkins jobs, the 1st one will build a binary file who is a dependency to the 2nd job build successfully.
Should I push this binary from 1st ...
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Risk of NuGet package adding new reference DLL
Had an interesting discussion with our architect. It was related to replacing a plain DLL reference with a NuGet package. His worry was "If it is possible for single NuGet package to add multiple DLL ...
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Should I update the major version of a consumer package if one of its critical dependencies has a major update?
This is a scenario I have seen:
I have a shared library with code that fetches data from an api. Let's call this ApiProvider. Currently this ApiProvider is in version 1.1.1 and is currently pointing ...
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How to show UML component load/discovery and realization relationships
In a UML component diagram I want to show two components (among others). One is the core component that loads contents (classes) from the other. It's much like a testframework loading unit tests/test ...
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Which tree or graph structure to solve this problem?
I have the following interface, it defines a loadable resource that depends on other resources that should be loaded first so it can load itself:
It does its job, the Find method allowing to search ...
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How can I get rid of a dependency in a single branch?
I am working on an API solution, split in three projects:
API
Domain
DataAccessLayer
I have created an interface, in the Domain project, ICustomerRepository, with a single method:
Domain.Customer ...
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Is it bad practice to have a helper package in go for testing purposes. Or is this introducing dependence's
I find myself repeating the same code when writing unit tests, for example... When writing functions that work with files, In the setup for the test i often write some code to create a file (in a ...
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Use just one parameter for all dependencies instead of many?
I understand that having 3 or more parameters as dependency is a sign that the class may be doing too many things, however there are cases that the class really needs more than 3. My question is, is ...
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Doubt about package-by-feature and circular dependencies
I am implementing a library that:
Takes some input data (I put data structures and classes in the parsing package)
Stores the data in a structure (I put data structures and classes in the storage ...
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UML class diagrams - how do I draw a class diagram that shows a self-reference? [closed]
So I have the following case. I have an interface A and an implementation AImpl. Now I have another implementation of A, called A2Impl, which references any instance of A besides implementing A ...
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Avoiding instantiating the whole application at startup when using a composition root
In a typical non-DI application, when you enter a section of code the necessary objects are constructed and when you leave it they are deconstructed.
However, when doing dependency injection with a ...
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modular system (packages) with dependencies?
I am building few sites for my company's client. The sites are mostly the same but could have some customisations.
so we decided to create duplicate sites instead of multi-tennant and we decided to ...
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Why is it considered bad that Guava introduced direct, internal dependencies?
For a few months, there's a heated discussion ongoing in Guava's issues (#3302, #3320) about having introduced several internal dependencies, namely "failureaccess" and "listenablefuture".
Some of ...
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How to deal with fear of taking dependencies
The team I'm in creates components that can be used by the company's partners to integrate with our platform.
As such, I agree we should take extreme care when introducing (third-party) dependencies. ...
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Injecting DAO dependencies into Service Class in Core Java
We don't have any frameworj like Spring where we can inject dependencies using annotations or xml file.
We have handler classes, service classes and dao classes.
Handler classes access service which ...
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Is it problematic to have a dependency between objects of the same layer in a layered software architecture?
Considering a medium-big software with an n-layer architecture and dependency injection, I am comfortable to say that an object belonging to a layer can depend on objects from lower layers but never ...
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C# Pattern for Creating/Hiding Object Graph Creation
I'd like to get some advice on what would be a good approach at hiding the creation of an object graph. In the code below I would like SomeClass to not be directly responsible for the creation of the ...
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Reducing dependencies between stories & which branch (GIT) should QA's test on?
Background
We have a team of 8 devs and 1 QA (tester) and we're struggling with dependencies between tickets and causing a lot of merge headaches and/or people waiting around for the next bit of work ...
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How to model attribute dependency “inside one class” in UML class diagram?
I have the following "software reality in working code" (also no access to it):
There is a class Class1 with different attributes
AttributeA - sums up all "ordinary attributes"
EnumType
DataType
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Do I include system dependencies when calculating Instability?
Given the formula to calculate instability...
I = (Ce / (Ca + Ce)) with Ce = outgoing dependencies, Ca = incoming dependencies, and I = Instability,
...should I include system dependencies (such as ...
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Adding library as dependency only to use one function
Few months ago I started working in a team that develops software using Node.js. Quite often we encounter the problem that has been already solved by someone else and the solution is already available ...
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How to have multiple source copies of a dependency in a C# git project?
In our company, we develop information system software in C#.NET, which has client-server-module architecture. Module project does not depend directly on server/client project, but only on shared ...
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Private/Hiding dependencies between Maven modules
Given three project modules X, Y and Z on a Maven based project, and Y depends of Z and X of Y and X should not know that Y depends of Z, being this:
X -> Y
Y -> Z
X -X> Z
What is the best way to ...
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If a instance method is used in one place only, should I move that method to that place?
For example, suppose I have a ZipCode class:
public class ZipCode{
public value String value;
public boolean validateFormat(){
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public otherMethod1(){
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