Places where you REALLY NEED to use 'assert' keyword in Spock assertions

📅 2020-03-18 · ☕ 5 min read

Make sure you know all the places where putting the 'assert' keyword in Spock is necessary to avoid false sense of security and tests which - effectively - do nothing.

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Mysteriously broken reduction operation on parallel streams in Java (explained)

📅 2020-03-12 · ☕ 11 min read

How to not get into trouble writing custom reduction operation on (parallel) streams with Java 8+ (including Java 14).

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Improved 'instanceof' operator in Java 14

📅 2020-03-03 · ☕ 3 min read

Make your code simpler with implicit casting in improved 'instanceof' operator in Java 14.

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Enable Java 14 preview features in Gradle, Maven and Idea

📅 2020-03-02 · ☕ 2 min read

Discover how to enable Java 14 preview features in Gradle, Maven, Idea and Command line.

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PIT, JUnit 5 and Gradle - with just one extra line of configuration

📅 2020-02-27 · ☕ 3 min read

Discover dead simple, improved PIT and JUnit 5 configuration in Gradle (with gradle-pitest-plugin 1.4.7+).

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Farewell WordPress, bonjour Hugo

📅 2020-02-14 · ☕ 3 min read

Get know about my blog migration from WordPress to Hugo and the reasons behind it.

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Where are all the old posts?

📅 2020-02-11 · 📝 2020-03-05 · ☕ 1 min read

Find out where to find all the old posts I wrote in the previous years.

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Migrating Spock 1.3 tests to Spock 2.0

📅 2020-01-02 · 📝 2020-03-11 · ☕ 8 min read

Get know what you can expect from Spock 2.0 M2 (based on JUnit 5), how to migrate to it in Gradle and Maven, and why it is important to report spotted problems :).

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Auto-switchable multiple Git identities on one computer - Git Tricks #1

📅 2019-08-27 · ☕ 3 min read

Have you even committed to Git using wrong email address working on/for different projects/companies? Luckily with a little configuration Git can auto-switch the identities for you.

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Simplify integration testing of legacy applications with Spock 1.2

📅 2018-09-14 · ☕ 4 min read

Learn how leverage Spock 1.2 to slice a Spring context of a legacy application writing integration tests.

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Spock 1.2 - hassle-free Spring beans mocking in integration tests

📅 2018-09-03 · ☕ 7 min read

Discover how to automatically inject Spock's mocks and spies into the Spring context using Spock 1.2.

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Convenient mocking in Mockito with JUnit 5 - the official way

📅 2018-03-27 · ☕ 4 min read

Learn about new, built-in, official support in Mockito for managing a mocking life cycle if JUnit 5 is used.

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