A few days ago VirtualJUG featured a very interesting talk on the upcoming new version of JUnit, namely JUnit 5. Nicolai Parlog did a great job in explaining the new features and architecture of the new version – if you haven’t seen it yet, go ahead and watch it. This weekend I’ve been getting my …
During the last six months or so testing has become a special interest of mine. Most of my career I have worked in the Java ecosystem and the majority of tests I’ve seen and written have been using JUnit. Currently I’m looking into the Javascript world, where testing often is done in a different way. …
For the first time since I moved to Nuremberg I made it to the local monthly Softwerkskammer meeting yesterday. Softwerkskammer is a german community format focusing on software craftship and it’s a great way for software developers to improve their skills. This month’s topic was The Transformation Priority Premise (TPP), an approach to writing code …
Recently I have started working on a large scale legacy project and I’ve had some time to understand how things work there. It is a fairly old JEE5-based tech setup and there are plenty of areas that can cause headaches. But a particular pain point is the way testing is handled. Yes, there are tests. …