The priority that performance testing gets among other development activities is always less; it is an “afterthought”, not a critical, ongoing part of the development process. Typically, it is done in higher environments like ST, QA. Some attention is given to performance in the prior SDLC cycles like design by making proper selection of frameworks. But […]
Easier mocking with Mockito
If you have been happily using Easymock for the past years, this blog post is for you. Because you need to upgrade to Mockito, the new kid on the block in the mocking universe. Why bother about what mocking framework you’re using to create your unittests? Because it will improve you tests, make them more […]
Automated functional testing with WebDriver
There is nothing nicer than having a functional test suite that checks if your application is still working as it should. It is even nicer to run these tests and see what is happening, while the tests are being executed. Two of the tools that give you this opportunity are Selenium RC and WebDriver. In […]
Bean Validation: Integrating JSR-303 with Spring
I recently had a chance to actually use the new Bean Validation spec. in one of my projects. As the developer of the Bean Validation Framework for Spring (part of the springmodules project) it of course feels a bit weird to ditch all the work I’ve done, but at the same time, it also feels […]
Introduction to Hadoop
Recently I was playing around with Hadoop, after a while I really recognized that this was a great technology. Hadoop allows you to write and run your application in a distributed manner and process large amounts of data with it. It consists out of a MapReduce implementation and a distributed file system. Personally I did […]
Enterprise Search: Introduction to Solr
From day one, we at JTeam were very much occupied with pushing new revolutionary open source technologies that can bring real value to us and to our customers. We were there when Spring just started and we helped making it what it is today. We were one of the first companies to use Hibernate in […]
Flex / Java developers wanted!
One of JTeam’s customers is looking to expand their team. Therefore we are looking for good people that fit one of the following four profiles (in Dutch): Flex/AIR developer Engine Senior Flex/AIR developer Grafisch georiënteerde interactie designer Senior Java developer Please note that our customer is looking only for direct hires to expand their team, […]
Testing with factories
On July 1st, Jelmer added a very useful blog post about testing the database layer in which he suggested to use “insert statement” and “fixture” classes to provide a good way to insert test data into your database. I am also using that technique as I’m writing unit tests for the database layer. I have […]
Project: Paazl, offers choice in shipment
JTeam is proud to announce the release of Paazl, one of the projects that we have been working on recently. Paazl offers a solution to the growing demand for choice when it comes to shipping. The platform JTeam developed allows Paazl customers (mostly webshop owners) to offer a range of options in shipment to their […]
Testing the database layer
The database is an integral part of many applications and writing queries is often hard. For that reason I have always written integration tests for the data access objects or DAO’s that I use to access the database. The way I write my DAO tests has changed a lot over the years and in this […]