Junit tests and Abstraction go hand in hand

I have been writing Junits for a while. Sometimes I feel proud of my junit tests as they really look meaningful. However, sometimes the junit tests look so ugly and pointless. I relate this difference to the Abstraction of the code. Lets talk about abstraction first. Abstraction is generally governed by “separation of concerns”. Each [...]

Apache Lucene – Indexing and Searching

It is the first part in series of blogs about Apache Lucene based on my practical experience. I have been working on Lucene for last one year. This blog mainly contains information about Lucene indexing and searching along with some less known facts about index and performance. Apache Lucene is a text based search framework. [...]