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How to improve productivity when developing JEE based web applications

December 6th, 2011

The title of this post was stolen from Stackoverflow, from this discussion:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/645746/how-to-improve-productivity-when-developing-jee-based-web-applications

I really like and agree with this point:

Being “the enterprise stack”, it is often used to create boring, ugly, “good enough” applications and, in general, enterprises tend not to attract great developers who love programming, and think and care about what they do. The quality of software in the enterprise world is not great.

There are exceptions, of course, but mainly from what I’ve seen from the past 10 years, this is, sadly, true. Why?

Agile, java, SCRUM, Software

Programmer testing

December 3rd, 2011

Recently I’ve researched a little about programmer testing, which resulted in a slide set that I’m now sharing with you. These slides are the basis for a training, which included a lot of exercises, as I like to do.

It includes some information about:

  • Agile testing
  • Test driven development
  • Unit testing with JUnit
  • Test doubles and Mockito
  • Code coverage

If you have any feedback or question, please let me know by leaving a comment or send me an email.

Agile, java, programming, SCRUM, Software