Java
5 Reasons Why Business Exceptions Are a Bad Idea
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Tom Hombergs
- June 4, 2019
I recently had a conversation about exception handling. I argued that business exceptions are a good thing because they clearly mark the possible failures of a business method.
Read more3 Steps to Fix NoSuchMethodErrors and NoSuchMethodExceptions
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Tom Hombergs
- October 8, 2018
A NoSuchMethodError occurs when we’re calling a method that does not exist at runtime. The method must have existed at compile time, since otherwise the compiler would have refused to compile the class calling that method with an error: cannot find symbol.
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Definitive Guide to the JaCoCo Gradle Plugin
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Tom Hombergs
- October 5, 2018
As discussed in my article about 100% Code Coverage*, a code coverage tool should provide the means not only to measure code coverage, but also to enforce it.
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Combining Object Mother and Fluent Builder for the Ultimate Test Data Factory
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Tom Hombergs
- August 31, 2018
To test our business code we always need some kind of test data. This tutorial explains how to do just that with the Object Mother pattern and why we should combine it with a Fluent Builder to create test data factories that are fun to work with.
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How to Configure a Human-Readable Logging Format with Logback and Descriptive Logger
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Tom Hombergs
- August 11, 2018
In a previous Tip, I proposed to use a human-readable logging format so that we can quickly scan a log to find the information we need.
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A Fully Automated Open Source Release Chain with Gradle and Travis CI
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Tom Hombergs
- December 29, 2017
“Release early, release often”. This philosophy should be a goal for every software project. Users can only give quality feedback when they have early access to a software release.
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