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Beginner’s guide to automated testing

A few years ago, I was lucky enough to cross the way of a bunch of guys which were very…

Creating a Slack app using ExpressJS and MongoDB

Tips for Executable Specification and Cucumber

I have been working with Cucumber doing executable specifications by example for some time now, so I decided to create a collection of recommendations to make specifications more readable in general and easier to implement with cucumber in…

Refactoring to understand what a piece of code does

Avoid testing boilerplate code using Java 8 lambdas

Earlier this week I was doing some code review and found a piece of boilerplate code that kept showing up all the time.

The repeating code looks something like this:

Recovering a broken test suite

In one of my most recent assignment, I joined a team that was made of fantastic developers. They knew…

Grails controller integration spec

Whew! I spent the last 2 hours banging my head against the wall trying to figure out how to make this in Grails-2.4.4!

Yes, I know it’s not advisable to create integration specs at controller level, I know I should be going for a unit spec, but a colleague had a very…

German plurals + dictionary

So, I’ve started learning German this year. Yep, German! It’s a cool language, actually. Much easier than I expected — or, at least, much easier than Japanese, which took 2.5 years to learn absolutely nothing :)

The thing is German is kinda little different from other languages…

Cucumber-JVM + JAX-WS

I’m working on an agile proposal for web services development, using automated acceptance tests along with unit tests and so on.

I created a repo on GitHub with an example of such a method being applied to a really simple JAX-WS web service, on which a user is able to find out some stuff…