Mikado Method
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 and
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Maintainable tests with Mockito
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 y
Read article100% unit test coverage and 0 warnings
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 co
Read articleSonarQube
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 jenkin
Read articleSlow is Fast and Small is Big
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
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