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 …
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 …