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
Publishing Open Source Snapshots with Gradle
One of the most fulfilling things in developing an open source project is getting feedback from the users of your project.
Read moreCreating a Consumer-Driven Contract with Angular and Pact
Consumer-driven contract tests are a technique to test integration points between API providers and API consumers without the hassle of end-to-end tests (read it up in a recent blog post).
Read morePublishing Open Source Releases with Gradle
When working on an open source Java project, you always come to the point where you want to share your work with the developer community (at least that should be the goal).
Read more7 Reasons to Choose Consumer-Driven Contract Tests Over End-to-End Tests
In a distributed system, testing the successful integration between distributed services is essential for ensuring that the services won’t fail in production just because they’re not speaking the same language.
Read moreAssumptions and Conditional Test Execution with JUnit 4 and 5
Sometimes, a test should only be run under certain conditions. One such case are integration tests which depend on a certain external system.
Read moreRobust Java Object Mapping With Minimal Testing Overhead Using reMap
Object mapping is a necessary and often unloved evil in software development projects. To communicate between layers of your application, you have to create and test mappers between a multitude of types, which can be a very cumbersome task, depending on the mapper library that is used.
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