Articles, page 48

• programming

  Creating 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).

  Tom Hombergs December 10, 20178 min read
  
• Java

  Publishing 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).

  Tom Hombergs December 4, 20177 min read
  
• Software Craft

  7 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.

  Tom Hombergs November 29, 20179 min read
  
• Java

  Lazy Evaluation of Gradle Properties

  Writing Gradle build tasks is often easy and straight forward, but as soon as you start to write more generic tasks for multiple modules or projects it can get a little tricky.

  Matthias Balke November 14, 20173 min read
  
• Java

  Assumptions 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.

  Tom Hombergs October 10, 20174 min read
  
• Java

  Robust 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.

  Tom Hombergs October 1, 20177 min read