Typescript: What’s This!?

Here’s a little innocuous looking typescript: 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14…

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Seriously How Long!?

I mentioned the delay caused by a slow build when talking about the costs of tweaking code that has a…

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That’s Two Hours I Won’t Get Back

As I’ve said before around the subject of linting, there’s a limited benefit of spending time modifying your code just…

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Mockito Matchers Precedence

This post is opinion. Let’s look at the verify method in Mockito for testing in Java. Example: verify(myMock).someFunction(123) – expects…

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The Library Paradox

I’ve started a few new projects recently, and faced a lot of bootstrap effort. Tricks of the trade, like efficiently…

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The Unit Test Time Machine

What do you call refactoring without unit tests? Anyone? Yes. It’s a trick question isn’t it? Refactoring without unit tests…

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JUnit5 TestSuite Alternative

JUnit4 had the TestSuiteclass to aggregate multiple tests. This is not available in JUnit 5. Generally test discovery via a…

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So You Wanna Build a (Test) Mail Server

I’ve recently been working on an app which processes data in an email box. Old school! What’s the best way…

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Three Types of Code Migration

As code gets old, it often becomes necessary to modernise it. There are a few motivations for this: We’ve found…

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