Writing Unit Tests With Spock Framework: Creating a Maven Project

The Spock Framework is a testing and specification framework for Java and Groovy applications. Its website make a somewhat bold claim: What makes it stand out from the crowd is its beautiful and highly expressive specification language. Before we can verify if this claim is true, we have to create an example project that we […] Read more

The Best Comments of July 2015

I think that the best part of writing a blog is to get comments from my readers. Because I have learned a lot from my readers, I want to “reward” the best comments, help you to learn new things, and (hopefully) encourage people to leave more comments. The rules are simple: I select X best […] Read more

Spring Data JPA Tutorial: Auditing, Part Two

When we hear the word auditing, the first thing that comes to mind is an audit log that contains each version of the audited entity. Implementing an audit log is a complex task that takes a lot of time. Luckily, most of the time we don’t need to do it. However, it is quite common […] Read more

Spring Data JPA Tutorial: Auditing, Part One

When we hear the word auditing, the first thing that comes to mind is an audit log that contains each version of the audited entity. Implementing an audit log is a complex task that takes a lot of time. Luckily, most of the time we don’t need to do it. However, it is quite common […] Read more

Writing Clean Tests - Java 8 to the Rescue

In the previous part of this tutorial we solved some common problems found from “clean” unit tests by using nested configuration. I was very happy with the final test class, but after a while I realized that something was bothering me. The only problem was that I couldn’t figure out what it was. I ignored […] Read more