Series writing-better-tests

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Using the Facade Pattern to More Easily Test static or Complex Classes (2 mins read).

How to use the Facade design pattern to more easily test classes that are more complex than our tests need to understand.

Wed, 19 Jan 2022 13:40 by Jamie Tanna . #java #testing.

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Testing Data Serialisation/Deserialization in Java (with Gson) (3 mins read).

How to validate your JSON types correctly serialise/deserialise when using the Gson library.

Fri, 07 Jan 2022 09:21 by Jamie Tanna . #java #testing #gson #blogumentation.

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Testing Data Serialisation/Deserialization in Java (with Moshi) (3 mins read).

How to validate your JSON types correctly serialise/deserialise when using the Moshi library.

Wed, 01 Dec 2021 09:42 by Jamie Tanna . #java #testing #moshi #blogumentation.

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Shift Your Testing Left with Spring Boot Controllers (5 mins read).

How to break down your tests for Spring Boot controllers, which could be used when performing Test Driven Development.

Sun, 28 Nov 2021 17:31 by Jamie Tanna . #java #testing #tdd #spring-boot.

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Creating More Descriptive and Fluent Assertion Helpers (4 mins read).

How to improve test readability, and developer experience, using assertion helpers.

Thu, 04 Nov 2021 19:26 by Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #testing #java #ruby #rspec #assertj.

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Testing Data Serialisation/Deserialization in Java (with Jackson) (4 mins read).

How to validate your JSON types correctly serialise/deserialise.

Sat, 02 Oct 2021 22:00 by Jamie Tanna . #java #testing #jackson #blogumentation.

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Making Your Gherkin Scenarios Written Using Human-Readable Language (4 mins read).

A lukewarm take about why you should use natural language, so someone not-as-technical can read it and still derive value.

Tue, 24 Aug 2021 22:40 by Jamie Tanna . #software-testing #cucumber #communication.

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Using Abstract Test Classes To Reduce Duplication in Java (4 mins read).

How to use Java's abstract classes to reduce duplication of code across unit tests with common functionality.

Wed, 11 Aug 2021 17:28 by Jamie Tanna . #java #junit5 #testing.

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Testing that your Spring Boot Application Context is Correctly Configured (2 mins read).

How to improve the tests you've got to validate that Spring Boot's context is set up correctly.

Fri, 25 Jun 2021 09:09 by Jamie Tanna . #java #spring-boot #testing.

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Testing Data Serialisation/Deserialization using JsonTest with Spring Boot (3 mins read).

How to use the @JsonTest test type in Spring Boot to validate your JSON types correctly serialise/deserialise.

Wed, 02 Jun 2021 09:21 by Jamie Tanna . #java #testing #spring-boot #blogumentation.

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Default Your Tests to run in Parallel (2 mins read).

Discussing the benefits you can achieve by having parallel-by-default.

Tue, 01 Jun 2021 14:50 by Jamie Tanna . #software-quality #software-testing #quality-engineering #testing.

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Writing Better Wiremock Stubs (3 mins read).

How to improve the specificity of Wiremock tests to allow for not clobbering other scenarios, and enabling scalable test runs.

Tue, 01 Jun 2021 14:50 by Jamie Tanna . #software-quality #software-testing #quality-engineering #testing #wiremock.

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Writing Better Tests (1 mins read).

Announcing a new series of posts about improving the way we write tests.

Mon, 31 May 2021 22:04 by Jamie Tanna . #software-quality #software-testing #quality-engineering #testing.