Making Unit Testing Private Methods Easier

Earlier this year I blogged about testing private methods (here). I noted that FieldUtils utility from Apache Commons Lang product has one-line utilities to access private fields. While explaining to readers that Lang's MethodUtils utility should have a one-line utility to access private methods so that we can more easily test them directly. I explained that this is preferable to over-exposing those methods (e.g. making them protected) merely so they can be tested. 
As a result I fil...