What The Commit!?

Committing in Git is The Future Whatever you write in your git commit history is what you’ll be going back…

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Proving There’s No Exception

How do you prove the existence of nothingness? Should you? In some tests I’ve written, especially around either validation, or…

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Attacking Your Inputs

While I’ve rallied against painting all code with final in Java, and have accepted that it’s handy to have const…

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How to Phrase Back End Tests in Cucumber

Cucumber is an execution framework for a specification language. It’s not meant to be a testing language, but it’s used…

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Using JSON Schema Validation to Map Sparse JSON

In this post, we’ll look at a problem that comes up when you create APIs and share them. In particular,…

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How Do I Know If I’m Testing Behaviour?

Throughout the Test Smells catalogue, there are signs you may be testing your code, rather than its behaviour. Even in…

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Chatty Logging in Tests

This is another test smell. What is the purpose of log messages in tests? Sometimes there are logging messages, via…

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Chasing The Dragon

Functions should, ideally return something. It makes them easier to test. Same for services in a service architecture. Bosh! Chasing…

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Extending the Cucumber Test Lifecycle

Overview This article is about two things: How do I make the beforeAll and afterAll lifecycle events happen in Cucumber?…

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