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Waiting for the right moment – in integration testing
When you have to test multi-threaded programs, there is always the need to wait until the system arrives at a particular state, at which point the test can verify that the proper state ...

Some Advice for New University Graduates: Dreams of Developing Software
I have taken a step back in an attempt to put the year 2012 in focus. As always, it started with great hopes and there were highs and it seemed for a moment, that working life was back ...

Lucene – Quickly add Index and Search Capability
What is Lucene? Apache LuceneTM is a high-performance, full-featured text search engine library written entirely in Java. It is a technology suitable for nearly any application that ...

Collection creation and Immutability with Google Guava
So, thought I’d take a look at some of the collection creation patterns Guava offers, and also some of the Immutable collection types it offers. If you’ve not seen my previous ...

Java EE 6 Web Profile. On the cloud. Easy.
Java SE is ok. Java EE is evil. That’s what I always used to think. Well, not anymore, now. Let me share my experience. Some weeks ago, I started thinking about porting a legacy ...

Google Guava Multisets
Continuing this tour of Guava we get to the Multiset. I probably don’t use this as much as Multimaps or Bimaps, but it certainly does have it’s uses. So what’s a Multiset ...

XAML or JavaFx?
This a quick, subjective, unauthorative and very non-scientific comparison of building applications with XAML and with JavaFx. The comparison is based on my personal experience working ...

Migrating a Large Project from Ant to Maven
The truth is we had been under difficult times. We spent almost three months to migrate our build mechanism from Ant to Maven. That’s the minimum time you have to put in your ...

FactoryPal: New Scala framework for creating objects as test data
FactoryPal is a scala framework that lets you create objects as test data. All you have to do is define the templates for each of the classes that you want FactoryPal to create objects ...

A Selenium/WebDriver example in Java
A couple of years back, I was pitching for some work and the client wanted to see how I would tackle a real world problem. They asked me to automate some tasks on the woot.com web site. The ...




