Mikado Method

26 December 2014 | 0

Recently, I attended a talk about “Mikado Method”. Let me summarize what this is all about. When adding a new feature to an existing code base, you often start with a rough idea and you think everything will be nice ... Read more »

Maintainable tests with Mockito

2 November 2014 | 0

Last thursday, I attended a conference where we compared the “Classic” with the “London School” of TDD. I turns out, many of you are not too familiar with Mocking / believe that mocking will link your test too tight to ... Read more »

100% unit test coverage and 0 warnings

10 August 2014 | 0

When it comes to test coverage, I make zero exceptions. 100% test coverage, preferably unit test coverage, and zero warnings is what I aim for. So many times, my personal zero tolerance attitude has been challenged by colleagues and supervisors. ... Read more »

SonarQube

10 August 2014 | 0

SonarQube (formerly known as Sonar) is a tool, a server, that automatically analyzes your code quality with static code code analysis. It is perfectly integrated in your continuous integration system (CI), such as jenkins. Some features of the platform includes: You ... Read more »

Slow is Fast and Small is Big

22 July 2014 | 0

I know most developers don’t waste much of their time choosing small things like package, class, method, or variable name. However, even the biggest architecture (something complex) stands on such small feet as little as a variable name. For me, ... Read more »