Java’s Volatile Modifier

A while ago I wrote a Java servlet Filter that loads configuration in its init function (based on a parameter…

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Java’s Volatile Modifier

A while ago I wrote a Java servlet Filter that loads configuration in its init function (based on a parameter from…

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How Agile is a Scrum team?

Most teams I meet today are agile. Or, so they proclaim to be. All of these teams do Scrum, and…

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Fast Remote Service Tests

Testing code that interacts with remote services is often pretty hard. There are a lot of tradeoffs that influence what…

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Code Katas

In this post I want to talk about code katas. Most of you have heard of code katas before, many…

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Acceptance Test Driven Development

In this short series about acceptance testing I previously wrote about collaboration between testers and developers and how acceptance tests…

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Acceptance Tests as Specifications

In my previous article about acceptance testing I wrote about how tools like FitNesse and Cucumber focus on collaboration between…

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Acceptance Testing: Blaming the Tools

About 5 years ago I was on a project to build a system for collateral management. The system was connected…

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Lambdas for Fluent and Stable APIs

A few weeks ago I wrote an introduction on Java 8 lambdas. In this introduction I explained what a lambda…

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