My Testing and Code Analysis Toolbox

Last week we kicked of a “Testing Skill Group” at LINEAS, a group for exchanging knowledge about testing. One question…

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Quickstart WebLogic 12c with NetBeans 7.1 RC 2

WebLogic server 12c is out since a few days. It is for “naked” Java dev – the fancy Fusion Middleware…

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Getting Started with Amazon Web Services and Fully Automated Resource Provisioning in 15 Minutes

While waiting for a new project, I wanted to learn something useful. And because on many projects we need to…

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Some Definitions – Testing Techniques 9

I think that I’m coming to the end of my series of blogs on testing techniques, and it feels like…

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Why You Should Write Unit Tests – Testing Techniques 8

I’ve had lots of reaction to my recent blog on ‘What you Should Test’, some agreeing with me for varying…

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More on Creating Stubs for Legacy Code – Testing Techniques 7

In my last blog, I talked about dealing with the badly behaved untestable(1) SitePropertiesManager class and how to create stubs by…

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Java Recursion basics

For those who don’t know what recursion is (and like a good laugh), click on this link: Google search: Recursion…

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Musing on mis-usings: ‘Powerful use, Damaging misuse’

There’s an old phrase attributed to the former British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli which states there are three types of…

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Spring Pitfalls: Transactional tests considered harmful

One of the Spring killer-features is an in-container integration testing. While EJB lacked this functionality for many years (Java EE…

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