In my previous post, I discussed a nifty sorting test. Today, I am going to teach you how to write great tests! When I write a new JUnit test I follow the same formula. This allows my tests to be written and read in a consistent manner. It also help...
I was asked recently why I write tests for my code. This is a topic I have spent a lot of time discussing and teaching others about so I decided to write a post documenting my answers. Story Line Let’s say a QA engineer finds a bug in a web applicati...
In this post, I am going to show you how to use the Java Collections API to help you both randomize and sort data so that it is more easily testable. Testable code leads to code that is easier to maintain. This will improve the longevity of any proje...
Thread Related Memory Leaks I am going to walk through how I found a thread related memory leak which was caused by incorrect thread usage. I also created a Github repo demonstrating how you can produce a memory leak and profile it by using Visua...
Today, I would like to give a quick overview of how to use Visual VM to diagnose memory leaks in a Spring Boot application. Debugging memory leaks is a critical skill to have when developing enterprise-level applications. These types of issues ca...
