Software Craft

Spring Boot implementation of Hexagonal Architecture to develop and test the application in isolation from external technologies.

Hexagonal Architecture is a way to structure the application so that it can be developed and tested in isolation from external technologies.

Collaborative work and appropriate engineering practices can reduce developer interruptions and make them less disruptive.

In this article, we will learn different ways to improve test readability. Tests document how the system should behave. They also act as self-verifying executable specifications.

Learn how to use the test data builder pattern to make it easy to create objects for tests. Learn how to reduce boilerplate code with Lombok.

What are the DRY and DAMP principles? Why do people consider DRY and DAMP in tests contradictory and how can we achieve both?

What is the best way to test private methods? Should I use some library or use reflection? Can I just make the method public?

Code quality is a weak spot in nearly every software project. This is especially true for legacy projects. What once was elegant, over time became rougher and finally incomprehensible. Monitoring and fixing code quality issues is something that has been proven to increase the quality of the application and decrease the delivery time to stakeholders.

There are a lot of developers and managers who think that writing unit tests is just extra work. Suggesting that we should write more unit tests seems to receive ill responses.

Let’s assume we have decided to increase the stability of our software. So we decide to write tests for our code. The problem is that the customer is requesting new features and deadlines are approaching.