Getting Started With Gradle: Integration Testing

Because the standard project layout of a Java project defines only one test directory (src/test), we have no standard way…

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Spring From the Trenches: Returning Git Commit Information as JSON

There are situations when we must know the exact version of our web application that is deployed to a remote…

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Spring From the Trenches: Returning Runtime Configuration as JSON

If we need to figure out the runtime configuration of a Spring web application that is deployed to a remote…

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Writing Clean Tests – Small Is Beautiful

We have learned that “clean” unit tests might not be as clean as we think. We have done our best…

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Spring from the Trenches: Injecting Property Values Into Configuration Beans

Spring Framework has a good support for injecting property values found from properties files into bean or @Configuration classes. However,…

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Writing Clean Tests – Trouble in Paradise

If our code has obvious faults, we are very motivated to improve it. However, at some point we decide that…

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Getting Started with Gradle: Creating a Web Application Project

This blog post describes how we can create a web application project with Gradle. To be more specific, we want…

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Writing Just Enough Documentation

One of the misconception that is often associated with agile software development is that agile teams won’t write any technical…

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We Are Gonna Need It

There was a time (not so long ago) when we designed everything before we wrote any code. We gathered the…

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