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Tips for Writing Maven Plugins
I’ve spent a lot of time recently writing or working on plugins for Maven recently. They’re simple, rewarding and fun to write. I thought I’d share a couple of tips ...
Opinion: Performance Testing
Performance tuning an application is time consuming, and expensive. Useful tests often need dedicated hardware to run on. It’s specialised and time consuming to prepare the ground ...
An unambiguous software version scheme
When people talk about software versioning schemes they often refer to the commonly used X.Y.Z numerical scheme for versioning. This is often referred to major.minor.build, but these ...
5 Tips for Unit Testing Threaded Code
Here’s a few tips on how take make testing your code for logical correctness (as opposed to multi-threaded correctness). I find that there are essentially two stereotypical patterns ...
Tips for testing with Java
Introduction I love automated testing. In a rare diversion into op-ed1 I thought a put few thoughts (read – opinions) together. Before I start on how best to compose ...
Tomcat Context JUnit @Rule
A first draft of a JUnit @Rule that create the test context. This can be used with the Spring context rule for this post to create a complete Spring context for integration tests. import ...
Tutorial: Hibernate, JPA & Spring MVC – Part 2
This tutorial will show you how to take a basic Hibernate/JPA app, convert it into a Spring MVC web project to be able to view the database in a web browser, and finally use Spring’s ...
Tutorial: Hibernate, JPA – Part 1
This is the first part of tutorial about using Hibernate and JPA. This part is an introduction to to JPA and Hibernate. The second part will look at putting together a Spring MVC application ...
Integration Testing with Selenium
Overview I’ve been using this for sometime and I’ve come across a few things that appear to make life easier. I thought I’d share this as a tutorial, so I’ll ...
Beyond JUnit – Testing Frameworks alternatives
JUnit is the defacto Java unit testing framework, but there’s a couple of new (and not so new) frameworks out there for web development that might be of interest. Questions you ...
