July 10, 2019
Here’s a bit of news: I’m going to Let’s Test in November! I’m really excited, for a couple of reasons. The first is – it’s Let’s Test, baby! I’ve been to the last couple of Let’s Test event in Sweden,… Continue Reading…
June 19, 2019
July 18, 2023
“Why do we need another testing framework”? Next week, I’m giving a brand new talk at the expoQA conference in Madrid. It’s on Spock – the unit testing framework, not the Starfleet commander. The first question I need to answer… Continue Reading…
June 12, 2019
Had a great fun at the meetup, as always. And the fun part was that my message resonated a lot stronger after the lightning talk before mine, where the speaker talked about how the developers chose a technique that made… Continue Reading…
May 15, 2019
Next Wednesday, 22 May ’19, I’m giving a lightning talk about a very important topic: Dependency Injection. Most developers know what it is, and now it’s time for testers to learn about it too – And that’s why this talk… Continue Reading…
April 5, 2019
March 20, 2019
We’ve been through a lot. We’ve covered all kinds of flows to be tested on the server side. We’ve seen how to check flows from the controller down to the database, combined with injecting different mocks and services. We’ve got… Continue Reading…
March 6, 2019
We’ve gone over what we needed from Spring to test a controller. And Spring is about to give it to us. Here’s a controller: This controller has GET and POST APIs. It has some logic in it (although this is… Continue Reading…
February 27, 2019
In Spring, Controllers allow external consumers to use REST APIs to call into the application logic. This is very convenient, since we don’t need to write a whole translation level. Spring controllers give us full access to the request parameters… Continue Reading…
February 20, 2019
Hibernate and JPA have done a lot for developers in minimizing the code needed to write database applications. Spring Data does a lot of magic behind the code for us, and we’d like to take advantage of that magic. Let’s… Continue Reading…