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Structure-cementing tests and how to avoid them

Part 1 - Building a TestDsl Tests should react to behavioral changes but be insensitive to structural changes. We call tests that do not fulfill the second condition structure-cementing. They mak...

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Java Version History (up to JDK 23)

An ongoing list of Java features per release Ever since Java switched to its six-month release cadence (Time-Based Release Versioning) it has become a bit harder to keep up with the features they...

JORM (Json Object-Relational Mapping) is not REST

The Richardson Maturity Model is a great model for explaining the basics of building an http Api. Unfortunately the indexing of its layers (0, 1, 2, 3) suggests that reaching Level 1 is already RES...

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.NET Version History (up to released .NET 8)

The following list tracks the stable (not incubating or in preview) feature changes I deemed most noteworthy. The list is ongoing and will be updated with every new .NET release. A + marks an add...

Naming Guidelines

Programming is a team sport where we use code to send messages of intent to our future selves. The messages are the names we have assigned to various function, class and other code elements. The as...

Contract Tests in Kotlin

I now call these tests port contract tests to differentiate them from api contract tests that verify your understanding of an api. Api contract tests are the things you write when you do consumer-d...