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Working code is not enough
2020-01-02 09:09
Get know what you can expect from Spock 2.0 M1 (based on JUnit 5), how to migrate to it in Gradle and Maven, and why it is important to report spotted problems :).
Important note. I defi… Read More
2019-12-23 22:30
“Not only individuals and interactions, but also a community of professionals” – The Software Craftsmanship Manifesto, 2009
Beginning
A long time ago (still) in a world of… Read More
2019-09-10 07:18
Publishing a newly created Git branch to a remote repository can be easier than you might expect.
Introduction
It is a very often situation in various Git workflow models to create a new… Read More
2019-09-03 08:55
Get know how to solve issue with pushing to submodules directly from the main repo while keeping the project easily cloneable by external contributors.
Introduction
The Git submodules mechan… Read More
2019-08-27 07:50
Have you even committed to Git using wrong email address working on/for different projects/companies? Luckily with a little configuration Git can auto-switch the identities for you.
(Too… Read More
2019-02-22 08:30
Make your (automatic) releasing to Maven Central from Travis (and not only) more reliable thanks to the explicit staging repository creation feature set implemented at the edge of 2018 an… Read More
2018-09-14 08:06
Learn how leverage Spock 1.2 to slice a Spring context of a legacy application writing integration tests.
Have you ever wanted, having some legacy application which you were starting to… Read More
2018-09-03 08:00
Discover how to automatically inject Spock’s mocks and spies into the Spring context using Spock 1.2.
Stubs/mocks/spies in Spock (and their life cycle) have been always tightly co… Read More
2018-03-27 08:19
Starting with the version 2.17.0 Mockito provides the official (built-in) support for managing a mocking life cycle if JUnit 5 is used.
Getting started
To take advantage of the integration… Read More
2017-09-19 08:44
Get know how fast (or slow) mutation testing in fact is (based on tangible results from the real FOSS projects) and how can it be optimized (with real implementation in PIT, a tool for Ja… Read More
2017-09-12 08:39
Tune up your JUnit test class template for Idea with the BDD-like syntax, Java 8 and the Mockito-AssertJ duo.
Topics covered in this article may seem trivial. However, from my trainer ex… Read More
2017-05-16 08:10
Create better defined, shorter and maintainable unit tests with given-when-then sections.
Recently, I’ve been writing rather about more advanced concepts related to automatic testi… Read More
2017-03-15 11:49
Stubbing methods returning java.util.Optional with Spock is more tricky that you would probably expect. Get know how to do it efficiently.
by Infrogmation, Wikimedia Commons, public doma… Read More
2016-12-07 12:15
Learn how to visualize complex input parameters in parameterized tests in the way improving the readability of the test report.
By Tomwsulcer – CC0, Wikipedia
Introduction
Paramete… Read More
2016-11-28 08:10
Get know how to create mocks and spies in even more compact way with Spock 1.1
Introduction
Spock heavily leverages operator overloading (and Groovy magic) to provide very compact and hi… Read More
2016-06-30 22:41
Get know how to enable named method parameters support in a Gradle project
Introduction
Java 8 has introduced (among others) an ability to get a method parameter name at runtime. For bac… Read More
2016-06-07 08:30
The simply way how buildscript dependencies (e.g. plugins) can be displayed and analyzed in Gradle
Introduction
This is the third part of my Gradle tricks mini-series related to visualiz… Read More
2016-06-07 08:30
The simply way how buildscript dependencies (e.g. plugins) can be displayed and analyzed in Gradle
Introduction
This is the third part of my Gradle tricks mini-series related to visualiz… Read More
2016-05-05 07:55
Would it be useful to unroll all parameterized Spock tests automatically?
I’ve been always frustrated with the need to add @Unroll annotation to every parametrized test/feature (or… Read More
2016-04-26 09:18
Have you ever experienced the “Could not find property X on plugin extension Y” error with a freshly cloned GitHub project you wanted to contribute to?
Missing username, pass… Read More
2016-02-26 07:30
How parallel execution of blocking “side-effect only” (aka void) tasks became easier with Completable abstraction introduced in RxJava 1.1.1.
As you may have noticed reading… Read More
2015-12-01 04:35
How to simplify Mockito usage by removing static imports in Java 8 based projects.
Rationale
Mockito API is based on static methods aggregated (mostly) in the (BDD)Mockito class followed… Read More
2015-10-07 07:20
Learn how Spring 4.2 simplifies handling transaction bound events (e.g. sent just after a database commit).
Introduction
As you probably already know (e.g. from my previous blog post) it… Read More
2015-09-29 08:32
Learn how to reduce boilerplace code in event handling with annotation-driven event listeners in Spring 4.2+.
Introduction
Exchanging events within the application has become indispensab… Read More
2015-09-08 08:09
How to communicate with Maven Central/Nexus without using the password kept locally unencrypted (especially with Gradle, but not limited to it).
Rationale
Unfortunately, Gradle (and many… Read More
2015-06-30 20:08
Mockito-Java8 is a set of Mockito add-ons leveraging Java 8 and lambda expressions to make mocking with Mockito even more compact.
At the beginning of 2015 I gave my flash talk Java 8 br… Read More
2015-03-24 07:00
Quick tutorial how to promote/release artifacts in a Gradle project to Maven Central, without clicking in the Nexus GUI with Gradle Nexus Staging Plugin.
Introduction
Maven Central (aka The… Read More
2015-03-09 07:00
Quick tutorial how to configure Spock 1.0 with Groovy 2.4 using Maven and Gradle.
Spock 1.0 has been finally released. About new features and enhancements I already wrote two blog posts. One… Read More
2014-11-19 20:17
In my previous post I presented how to display and filter dependencies in multi-module Gradle build. This time I will show how to quickly discover why become a dependency of our project.
Pr… Read More
2014-11-13 04:30
gradle dependencies allows to display dependencies in your project printed as pretty ascii tree. Unfortunately it does not work well for submodules in multi-project build. I was not able to… Read More
2014-10-03 08:10
When writing integration tests it is sometimes required to set up environment initial conditions/state before/after a given test or the whole specification. Upcoming Spock 1.0 expands the nu… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Mutation testing allows to check the quality (effectiveness) of automatic tests. PIT (aka pitest) is a leading mutation testing tool for Java environment. In my last blog post about PIT in J… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Mockito uses a lazy approach for stubbing and when a not stubbed method is called it returns a default value instead of throwing an exception (like EasyMock). This is very useful to not over… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
AppFuse 3.0 has been released. It refreshes used technologies (Java 7+, Spring 4, Spring Security 3.2) and adds a bunch of new (Bootstrap 3, PrimeFaces, wro4j, WebJars and finally Apache Wic… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
The Happiness Door is a great method of collecting instant feedback. I have used it successfully on my training sessions and recently had a first try to use it after my conference speech. In… Read More
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