Tom Hombergs

As a professional software engineer, consultant, architect, general problem solver, I've been practicing the software craft for more than fifteen years and I'm still learning something new every day. I love sharing the things I learned, so you (and future me) can get a head start. That's why I founded reflectoring.io.

Articles by Tom Hombergs

Spring Boot

Conditional Beans with Spring Boot

Tom Hombergs
March 7, 2019

When building a Spring Boot app, we sometimes want to only load beans or modules into the application context if some condition is met.

Book Notes

Book Review: Your Code as a Crime Scene

Tom Hombergs
February 17, 2019

TL;DR: Read this Book, when… you are interested in metrics by which to evaluate a codebase or even organizational behavior of a development team you want to know how to gather those metrics you have a certain codebase that you want to analyze Overview Your Code as a Crime Scene by Adam Tornhill is a book that aims to apply criminal investigation techniques to a codebase in order to gain insights about the structure and quality of the code.

Spring Boot

Testing JPA Queries with Spring Boot and @DataJpaTest

Tom Hombergs
February 3, 2019

Aside from unit tests, integration tests play a vital role in producing quality software. A special kind of integration test deals with the integration between our code and the database.

Book Notes

Book Review: Java by Comparison

Tom Hombergs
January 28, 2019

TL;DR: Read this Book, when… you are starting with Java and want some advice for producing quality code you are teaching Java and want your students to learn best practices you are working with junior developers and want them to get them up to speed Overview In a nutshell, Java by Comparison by Simon Harrer, Jörg Lenhard, and Linus Dietz teaches best practices in the Java programming language.

Spring Boot

Testing MVC Web Controllers with Spring Boot and @WebMvcTest

Tom Hombergs
December 16, 2021

In this second part of the series on testing with Spring Boot, we’re going to look at web controllers. First, we’re going to explore what a web controller actually does so that we can build tests that cover all of its responsibilities.