5 Things I Do to Stay Relevant

I have noticed that some Finnish IT professionals are complaining that being just a good employee isn’t good enough anymore.…

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Writing Tests for Data Access Code – Data Matters

When we write tests for our data access code, we use datasets for two different purposes:        …

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Writing Clean Tests – To Verify Or Not To Verify

When we write unit tests that use mock objects, we follow these steps:              …

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Writing Tests for Data Access Code – Don’t Forget the Database

When we write tests for our data access code, we must follow these three rules:          …

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Writing Tests for Data Access Code – Don’t Test the Framework

When we write tests to our data access code, should we test every method of its public API? It sounds…

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Writing Tests for Data Access Code – Green Build Is Not Good Enough

The first thing that we have to do before we can start writing integration tests for our data access code…

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Writing Tests for Data Access Code – Unit Tests Are Waste

A few years ago I was one of those developers who write unit tests for my data access code. I…

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Getting Started with Gradle: Dependency Management

It is challenging, if not impossible, to create real life applications which don’t have any external dependencies. That is why…

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Getting Started with Gradle: Our First Java Project

This blog post describes how we can compile and package a simple Java project by using Gradle. Our Java project…

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