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Maven

Clean and organize your pom.xml

Dependency mechanism is a core feature of Maven and is very powerful and flexible. And because of Transitive Dependencies included in version 2.0 dependency management […]
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Quality Assurance

Testing REST API with Serenity and Rest-assured

Rest-assured is a Java framework for testing and validating REST APIs. Serenity is an automated BDD(Behaviour driven development) acceptance testing framework. Rest-assured combined with Serenity […]
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Microservices

To microservice or not to microservice

Distributed systems have been around for a while. Since like 1970s we’ve been building applications with large scale in mind, and large availability. We went […]
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Agile

Better planning and estimating

There are countless cases where major delays in product development are caused by poor estimation-related decisions. When it comes to both, high-level (long term features) […]
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Quality Assurance

Building executable jar with Cucumber tests

Depending on how continuous integration and regression testing is constructed in a project, there might be a need to run the same tests couple of […]
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Java Quality Assurance

Test your REST API with Spock – Introduction to Spock Framework

In this article I’d like to show you how to test your API with Spock Framework. Spock is a testing framework for Java and Groovy […]
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Machine Learning

Machine learning – how to

Machine learning is widely and successfully used nowadays. We think that computers know, but actually, they do not know – they compute. All they do […]
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Pytest
Python Quality Assurance

Pytest – why it’s more popular than unittest?

In my professional career I used to write tests with both frameworks: unittest and pytest. Both are great tools with certain pros and cons, but pytest is significantly more popular […]
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Code Review
Quality Assurance

The benefits of Code Reviews

Introduction Code reviews, despite the many benefits they bring, are sometimes treated as a necessary evil. Programmers are convinced that this is unnecessary worktime, which […]
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Java Quality Assurance

JUnit 5: Quick start guide

Introduction JUnit is a great unit testing framework for the Java programming language. However, version 4 of the framework has a few disadvantages like multiple […]
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