Ground Zero

In some languages, and by some I probably mean JavaScript, values are tested for truthiness. Any value can be treated…

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Mock Around the Clock

When I produced System Stubs I attempted, and failed, to produce a mock implementation for the system clock. It’s very…

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Why Most Unit Testing is Waste???

A rebuttal of points raised in this article by James O Coplien. It’s worth noting that James O Coplien is…

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The Case Against CI/CD

I present now the case against CI/CD: It’s expensive to set up CI/CD pipelines, and the cost of doing so…

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Sharing a Secret with a Tomcat Service in ECS

AWS is pretty good, with a lot of documentation. However, often you need to spot the detail you need among…

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Set it up

In Java, we often have framework support for importing settings from the file system of our application. If we’re lucky,…

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All Our Assertion Problems

When our software outputs JSON, it can be hard to test. Consider this code: 1 2 assertThat(someJson)    .isEqualTo(expectedJson); Assuming the…

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The Subs Bench

a.k.a. “How do I subclass a list element declared in my interface?” As covered by the rather awesome Ram on…

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Go (Con)Figure

Another post about Lightweight Config, a library I’ve recently built from the ground up, after creating various versions of it…

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