My last article covered my first steps with using Pact to implement Consumer Driven Contracts. One thing that I left out intentionally was working with the Pact Broker to share contract between consumers and providers. This post looks at just that.
Consumer driven contracts have been around for years. I got frustrated with the state of the official documentation and other available resources, so in this post I try to come up with an easy to follow approach to start implementing them using Pact.
In my last two blog posts I wrote about a library called Testcontainers. It’s a Java wrapper around docker containers and you can use it to run software that your application depends on in a test context. My last post presented a solution that makes it easier to start up an Infinispan caching server. This …
This post has originally been published on the codecentric blog. A few days ago I wrote about a library called Testcontainers. It helps you to run software that your application depends on in a test context by providing an API to start docker containers. Testcontainers comes with a few pre-configured database- and selenium-containers, but most …
I’ve been working in my current project for a while now and while it has its problems I mostly enjoy my envolvement in it. The project is based on Spring Boot and consists of a bunch of web-applications, both for endusers, internal personnel and operations staff. The team takes testing seriously, we have different code-quality …
This post has originally been published on the codecentric blog. It was translated to english and slightly edited for this blog. A month back the JUnit team published the offical version of JUnit 5. There’s plenty of resources for high level overviews and if you want to catch up I can recommend this (german) article …
After three years without any new JUnit version, a few weeks back on September 10th a new version of JUnit has been published: JUnit 5! While there were only minor upgrades to the popular testing library over the last couple of years, this was a big release that the JUnit team had been working on …
A few days ago VirtualJUG featured a very interesting talk on the upcoming new version of JUnit, namely JUnit 5. Nicolai Parlog did a great job in explaining the new features and architecture of the new version – if you haven’t seen it yet, go ahead and watch it. This weekend I’ve been getting my …
During the last six months or so testing has become a special interest of mine. Most of my career I have worked in the Java ecosystem and the majority of tests I’ve seen and written have been using JUnit. Currently I’m looking into the Javascript world, where testing often is done in a different way. In contrast to Java, BDD-style tests are much more common here. There are some libraries that extend JUnit so that you can write tests in a different way, too, JBehave for example enables you to use Gherkin as a specification language, for which you then write a Java adapter that actually implements those specifications.
For the first time since I moved to Nuremberg I made it to the local monthly Softwerkskammer meeting yesterday. Softwerkskammer is a german community format focusing on software crafting and it’s a great way for software developers to improve their skills. This month’s topic was The Transformation Priority Premise (TPP), an approach to writing code …