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- Spring Boot
Testing JPA Queries with Spring Boot and @DataJpaTest
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
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
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.

- Spring Boot
Unit Testing with Spring Boot
Writing good unit tests can be considered an art that is hard to master. But the good news is that the mechanics supporting it are easy to learn.

- Meta
My Personal Review of 2018
It’s easiest to review things if they are measured. So, in this post, I’ll try to measure as much of my year 2018 in hindsight to draw a conclusion to this year and then make plans for the next.

- programming
Implementing a Consumer-Driven Contract between a Node Message Consumer and a Node Message Producer
Consumer-driven contract (CDC) 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).
