Clean Unit Testing

It’s easy to write “unit test” tests that use JUnit and some mocking library. They may produce code coverage that…

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Building Java 6-8 Libraries for JPMS in Gradle

Find out how to use Gradle to build Java 6-8 libraries that support JPMS (Java Platform Module System) by providing…

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Testing Kotlin with Spock Part 3 – Interface default method

Kotlin allows you to put method implementation in an interface. The same mechanism can be found in Java interfaces as…

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Simplify integration testing of legacy application with Spock 1.2

Learn how leverage Spock 1.2 to slice a Spring context of a legacy application writing integration tests. Have you ever…

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Testing Kotlin with Spock Part 2 – Enum with instance method

The enum class with instance method in Kotlin is quite similar to its Java version, but they are look a…

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Gradle Dependencies for Java, use compile or implementation?

While I was explaining to a colleague about using Gradle for Java projects (he was moving away from Maven), we…

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X-Mas Musings – Too Many Paths. One Path Spec?

December is for many people a period of reflection or thought. So I decided to reflect upon last year’s things…

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Escaping XML with Groovy 2.1

When posting source code to my blog, I often need to convert less than signs (<), and greater than signs…

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Hello GroovyFX

GroovyFX brings together two of my favorite things: Groovy and JavaFX. The main GroovyFX Project page describes GroovyFX as ‘[providing]…

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