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December 20, 2013December 14, 2020

Spock: Data Driven Testing

In the last two articles on Spock I’ve covered mocking and stubbing. And I was pretty sold on Spock just based on that. But for a database driver, there’s a killer feature: Data Driven Testing.

July 10, 2013December 14, 2020

Spock passes the next test – Painless Stubbing

In the last post I talked about our need for some improved testing tools, our choice of Spock as something to spike, and how mocking looks in Spock. As that blog got rather long, I saved the next installment for a separate post.

July 9, 2013December 14, 2020

Spock is awesome! Seriously Simplified Mocking

We’re constantly fighting a battle when developing the new MongoDB Java driver between using tools that will do heavy lifting for us and minimising the dependencies a user has to download in order to use our driver. Ideally, we want the number of dependencies to be zero.

Courses

IntelliJ IDEA Trisha has created courses to teach developers the most important tricks and tips for getting the most out of their IDE. Working with Code in IntelliJ IDEA This course shows you how to use IntelliJ IDEA to write and read code, more effectively. The course also introduces related topics like running and testing …

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All Abstracts

Here you’ll find a history of Trisha’s major talks and workshops. Abstracts Developer Productivity Engineering: What’s in it for me? Slides and more infoSummary: Developer Productivity Engineering (DPE) is the Next Big Thing in Software Development. But what is it? How will it foster Developer Joy? And how can you introduce it to your organization? …

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Is boilerplate code really so bad?

It’s exhausting staying up to date with the evolution of Java and the myriad other JVM languages. Is it worth it? What do modern languages give us?

Level Up Your Automated Tests

This presentation is about how to change a team’s attitude towards writing automated tests. The talk covers the same case study as Groovy vs Java for Testing, adopting Spock in MongoDB, but this is a more process/agile/people perspective, not a technical look at the merits of one language over another.

Groovy vs Java

Resources for my "Is Groovy Better Than Java for Testing?" talk.

Staying Ahead of the Curve

Abstract We all want to stay ahead of the curve – after all, that’s what you go to a conference for. But have you ever considered how being ahead of the curve might be dangerous? Using a new language before you understand it, putting a technology into production so you can learn it, abandoning "old …

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AngularJS, HTML5, Groovy, Java and MongoDB All Together – What Could Possibly Go Wrong??

This year I’ve been giving an evolving live demonstration of coding a Fully Buzz Word Compliant, mobile-friendly web application. The aim of the demo is to show, via a real-world application rather than snippets or a toy example, where these popular technologies sit in your architecture, and how they interact with each other.