Private Methods

• You should not test private methods!

• You should really test the public API

Reasons to not test private methods:

1. The method might use private attributes, which u cannot change

2. You are testing implementation detail

3. It will slow down future development, since now you will need to change way more tests

But I realllllly want to test this private method

• If the method is huge and its seems to be breaking the expert principle, consider moving it to a new class where the method is public

• no - don’t use reflection