Why Continuous Improvement Is Worth It?

When we start a new software project, we are typically full of enthusiasm. The whole team thinks that this time…

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Adding Social Sign In to a Spring MVC Web Application: Unit Testing

Spring Social 1.0 has a spring-social-test module which provides support for testing Connect implementations and API bindings. This module was…

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Turning Assertions Into a Domain-Specific Language

Assertions are an essential part of our unit tests. And yet, it so easy to neglect them. That is a…

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Adding Social Sign In to a Spring MVC Web Application: Registration and Login

The first part of this tutorial described how we can configure Spring Social 1.1.0 and Spring Security 3.2.0 but it…

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Adding Social Sign In to a Spring MVC Web Application: Configuration

In the good old days users logged in by using the combination of username and password. Although nowadays some people…

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From Top to Bottom – TDD for Web Applications

I am a “testing fanatic” but I don’t understand test-driven development. Or so I thought. I have read a few…

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Creating Code Coverage Reports for Unit And Integration Tests with The JaCoCo Maven Plugin

When I started using Java 7, I noticed right away that the Cobertura Maven plugin doesn’t support it. This was…

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The Dark Side of Best Practices

Best practices are the backbone of software development (or so we are told). Every developer has his own opinions about…

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Unit Testing of Spring MVC Controllers: REST API

Spring MVC provides an easy way to create REST APIs. However, writing comprehensive and fast unit tests for these APIs…

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