New book: Mockito

I'm really excited...feel like a kid on xmas day. I received a copy of the book, Practical Unit Testing with TestNG and Mockito.  The important element is Mockito. I've used mock objects in the past but with a fairly basic understanding. This book provides in-depth coverage of mock objects with Mockito. So I'm psyched that I finally have a definitive [...]

By |2012-07-09T15:44:59-04:00July 9, 2012|Agile, Test Driven Development, XP|Comments Off on New book: Mockito

Conference Slides from EclipseCon 2012

I just stumbled on the website for EclipseCon. EclipseCon is a conference for users/developers of Eclipse. The conference slides are all on-line and freely available. I just scanned the list and found some sessions that are really interesting. How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Build Continuous Delivery: Delivering software quickly to your users Agile XXL: Scaling Agile [...]

By |2012-07-04T17:47:17-04:00July 4, 2012|Agile, Scrum, Software Project Management, XP|Comments Off on Conference Slides from EclipseCon 2012

Continuous Integration

I found a very good presentation on Continuous Integration. The presentation was developed by Sebastian Bergmann. The complete presentation is available here. I selected a couple of slides from the presentation that are very valuable.

By |2012-07-02T20:57:11-04:00July 2, 2012|Agile, Scrum, XP|Comments Off on Continuous Integration

My Bookshelf: SOA, Spring, Hibernate, GWT, TDD/JUnit, Agile, Scrum, Continuous Integration

Here's a snapshot of my bookshelf. Just a snippet of a much larger library. Nice collection of books on SOA, Spring, Hibernate, GWT, TDD/JUnit, Agile, Scrum, Continuous Integration [nggallery id=1 template=caption]

By |2012-07-01T16:46:41-04:00July 1, 2012|Agile, GWT, Java, Maven, Passion, Scrum, SOA, Software Project Management, Spring, Test Driven Development, XP|Comments Off on My Bookshelf: SOA, Spring, Hibernate, GWT, TDD/JUnit, Agile, Scrum, Continuous Integration

Unit Testing a Password Utility

In this post, we are going to develop a password utility. The utility has to support password validation. Here are the password security rules for the application: at least 8 characters, max of 12 at least one uppercase at least one lowercase at least one number at least one symbol @#$%=:? In regular TDD fashion, we'll first set out to [...]

By |2012-06-30T12:20:22-04:00June 30, 2012|Agile, Java, JUnit, Test Driven Development, XP|Comments Off on Unit Testing a Password Utility

Unit Testing Java Email Code with Fake SMTP Server

What is your testing strategy for sending emails from your Java application? Do you hard-code your developer email in the application? I've been there and done that (not too proud though). Ideally, you would like to use the actual email addresses in your testing process. However, you do not want to send the email to the actual recipient. You would [...]

By |2012-05-10T08:11:12-04:00May 10, 2012|Agile, Java, JavaMail, JUnit, Test Driven Development|Comments Off on Unit Testing Java Email Code with Fake SMTP Server

How to add Unit Testing to a Legacy Project

Source: InfoQ It is always a herculean task to write automated regression tests for a legacy application. The questions vary from where to start, how much to automate and deciding on the best strategy for automation. Responding to a thread started by Mark Levison on the Agile software testing group, Hubert Matthews suggested that the approach that he recommends is a [...]

By |2011-01-30T04:06:44-05:00January 30, 2011|Agile, Test Driven Development|Comments Off on How to add Unit Testing to a Legacy Project
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