1. Copy & Paste Its one of the most powerful tool and technique in the typical programmer. But at the same time its too dangerous that you ought to forgot the code according to you requirements. So always be cautious about what piece of code you are copying. Read at least two to three times to avoid the tricky for fishy things while your unit testing. 2. Exception Catch Block. Always give priority to write some thing useful and meaning full statements in the exception catch block.It really worth when you troubling shooting the issues. Never leave this block with empty or sop's. And always throw the exception to the calling method. 3. String operations Since String is immutable object, when you do any operation on string that results a new object. So after you do any modifications on String and do assign the string some object and use it. 4. Null pointers Don't perform the operations on objects without checking the Object null condition. And while checking the