Exceptional Happenstances

Happenstance testing is a test smell where you are asserting something more specifically than relevant to what you’re testing. For…

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RTFE – Read The Flaming Error

It’s a common issue when trying to start up your application. Something goes wrong, there’s a load of trace on…

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TDD – Brakes on or off?

This was originally posted on LinkedIn as Life without TDD – Driving with the brakes off, or driving with no…

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The Feature Magnet

God, I hate enum in Java. (Well, I don’t, but it got your attention didn’t it!?) Here’s a simple chain…

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The BDD Spectrum

I’ve written about options around BDD before. I have described how there’s a broad range of approaches you can choose…

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Call That An Exception?

While this is a Java example to do with testing and wiremock, it relates to a more universal problem. We…

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Half a Helper Method

I’ve probably seen this happen more in test code, where thinking is often even more procedural than normal. It’s certainly…

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Mythematical Codey Code

Consider the following snippet: int max = 10; int a = 0; while (true) { // do a thing that…

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It Broke vs You’re Wrong

When building REST APIs for microservices, there are a few design decisions to make about responses. Some responses are clearly…

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