June 2014

Getting Started With Gradle: Dependency Management

It is challenging, if not impossible, to create real life applications which don't have any external dependencies. That is why dependency management is a vital part of every software project. This blog post describes how we can manage the dependencies of our projects with Gradle. We will learn to configure the used repositories and the […] Read more

Getting Started With Gradle: Our First Java Project

This blog post describes how we can compile and package a simple Java project by using Gradle. Our Java project has only one requirement: Our build script must create an executable jar file. In other words, we must be able to run our program by using the command: Let's find out how we can fulfil […] Read more

Getting Started With Gradle: Introduction

Gradle is a build tool which replaces XML based build scripts with an internal DSL which is based on Groovy programming language. It has gained a lot of traction recently and that is I why I decided to take a closer look at it. This blog post is the first part of my Gradle tutorial, […] Read more

Writing Clean Tests - Divide and Conquer

A good unit test should fail for only one reason. This means that a proper unit test tests only one logical concept. If we want to write clean tests, we have to identify those logical concepts, and write only one test case per logical concept. This blog post describes how we can identify the logical […] Read more