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Let's admit the truth. Testing is often an overlooked aspect of software development and an afterthought in most teams. There are very few developers who actively enjoy writing
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The more our project and test suite grow, the longer the feedback loop becomes. Fortunately, there are techniques available to speed up our build time. One of such
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Spring Boot offers excellent testing support for Spring Web MVC controllers. With the help of @WebMvcTest and MockMvc, we can verify our controller endpoints in isolation. This includes
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Spring offers various tools for testing our controller endpoints: MockMvc, WebTestClient, and the TestRestTemplate. While all three candidates serve a similar goal – invoking our HTTP endpoints and
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Similar to a REST API, an Amazon SQS listener is an entry point to our application. While we can easily test our Spring Web MVC controller endpoints either
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This article describes my working setup (hardware and software) as a remote freelance Java developer. I've been working from either home, co-working places, or cafes for almost two
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This article showcases how to test a Spring Web MVC HandlerInterceptor using JUnit 5 and Spring Boot. We'll discuss the value of unit tests to test a HandlerInterceptor
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Feature flags offer a solution to decouple the deployment of a feature from its release. This can help us continuously deploy new changes without releasing features immediately to
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It's been almost a year since I've bought the MacBook Pro M1 (arm64 processor) for my daily Java development as a freelance consultant. I had my first contact
