Thread Jiggling

Overview Thread jiggler is a simple testing framework for exercising code to find threading problems. It works by modifying classes…

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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…

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Opinion: Performance Testing

Performance tuning an application is time consuming, and expensive. Useful tests often need dedicated hardware to run on. It’s specialised…

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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…

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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…

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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)…

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Tomcat Context JUnit @Rule

A first draft of a JUnit @Rule that create the test context. This can be used with the Spring context…

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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…

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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…

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