Testing @ConfigurationProperties in Spring Boot 2.5.X

Three years ago, I wrote an article on how to test Spring’s @ConfigurationProperties classes. Since three years are a long time, I just updated the project on GitHub. It works with Spring 2.5.X now! You can find the project right here: https://github.com/tuhrig/Testing_Configuration_Properties And here’s the old post from 2018: https://tuhrig.de/testing-configurationproperties-in-spring-boot What’s it about? The basic […]

A GPS diary in four weeks with Play!

During the last four weeks I did another small project for one of my university courses this semester. The course was about ORM modelling and abstractions for databases. We did some exercies with Hibernate and discussed diefferent aspects about ORM modelling. At the end of the course, every student made a small web-project using a […]

Thomas’ Functional Interpreter

I just finished a small functional interpreter for an university course. To be precise, the interpreter itself is not functional, but it understands a functional, LISP-like language/syntax. The whole project is written in Java 7 and provides an interface to all Java classes on the class-path, too. I also tried to create a small IDE […]

Java (Micro) Performance Measuring

Here’s a new presentation from me about Java Micro Performance Measuring. You can find it on Speaker Deck as you see below. Here’s the PDF version to download. Best regards, Thomas Uhrig

Tools to understand Java code

I have recently read a question on Stackoverflow whether there are any tools to help understanding Java code. Somebody asked it, because he started to use a pen and a sheet of paper to get the clue of some code given to him. Not uncommon. But the problem was, that nobody tried to answer the […]

Automated UI testing with Swing & FEST

Testing an application is hard, but testing an user interface (UI) is even harder. FEST addresses this issue for Java Swing applications. It enables you to write easy and readable functional tests for your UI. Working together with JUnit, it lets your functional UI tests feel like common unit tests within your test suite. FEST […]