Faster Testing of the JPA Repository in Spring Applications
In the ‘Clean Code‘ book, Uncle Bob defined the five characteristics of a clean test. Those characteristics have the acronym FIRST;
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Factory Pattern: Replacing the Conditional Statement with Lambda Expressions
The “Factory Pattern” falls under the creational design patterns and is most widely used in Java applications. Similar to the
Mars Rover – Refactoring Kata
On several occasions, I have used the Mars Rover challenge to train developers on TDD principles. This time, I am
Tutorial: How to configure maven surefire plugin work with JUnit 5
Recently, I had a task to migrate the unit tests in our project from ‘JUnit 4’ to ‘JUnit 5’. As
How to handle Java exceptions in clean code? – Part 2
In my previous post, I explained the different types of exceptions in Java and left two questions for this post!
How to handle Java exceptions in clean code? – Part 1
Reading the chapter ‘Error Handling‘ from the book ‘Clean Code‘ made me think whether developers follow the clean code rules when
Extreme Practices – Video
The video of our talk at AgileTour Beirut is finally available online! You can watch it here: You can
Coding dojo… One year later
Last week’s coding dojo session was a special one, not only because we brought a cake 🙂 but because it
Newcomers’ Training Program
Recently, I was in charge of training two fresh-graduate newcomers to our department. My mission was to prepare a two
Using H2 In-Memory to test your DAL
How should we test the Data Access Layer code? Many developers ask that question. Similar to the other layers of
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