Discussion of good software and development practices in Spring is an endless topic. In this chapter, we identified some of the most important practices to consider. Try to think about the good and bad practices we discussed and, most importantly, try to practice them for a while. You will notice that the quality of the applications you develop will improve significantly. Also, try to be open-minded regarding other good practice suggestions and think about how you could benefit from them. Most importantly, avoid bad practices since many of them can lead you astray.
In the next chapter, we will cover one particularly good development practice: we will write unit tests for our code. We will demonstrate how to write tests and provide guidance on how to make use of them. Be patient, try every example that follows, and consider how you could use them to test some of your own...
