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When we are writing integration tests for a function that saves information to the database, we have to verify that the correct information is saved to the database. If our application uses Spring Framework, we can use Spring Test DbUnit and DbUnit for this purpose. However, it is very hard to verify that the correct […] Read More about Spring From the Trenches: Resetting Auto Increment Columns Before Each Test Method

If we are writing integration tests for an application that uses Spring Framework, we can integrate DbUnit with the Spring testing framework by using Spring Test DbUnit. However, this integration is not problem free. Often we have to insert null values to the database before our tests are run or verify that the value saved […] Read More about Spring From the Trenches: Using Null Values in DbUnit Datasets

Every developer must understand two things: Architecture design is necessary. Fancy architecture diagrams don’t describe the real architecture of an application. The real architecture is found from the code that is written by developers, and if we don’t design the architecture of our application, we will end up with an application that has more than […] Read More about Understanding Spring Web Application Architecture: The Classic Way

Some time I read a blog titled: Finding your voice when writing a technical book. It reminded me that I have been writing this blog for four and half years, but I haven’t paid a lot of attention to my "voice". That is going to change right now. If I think about my past blog […] Read More about Help Me to Improve My Writing Style

Asciidoc is a text based document format, and that is why it is very useful if we want to commit our documents into a version control system and track the changes between different versions. This makes Asciidoc a perfect tool for writing books, technical documents, FAQs, or user’s manuals. After we have created an Asciidoc […] Read More about Using Asciidoctor with Spring: Rendering Asciidoc Documents with Spring MVC

After we have created a useful application, the odds are that we want to share it with other people. One way to do this is to create a binary distribution that can be downloaded from our website. This blog post describes how we can build a binary distribution that fulfils the following requirements: Our binary […] Read More about Getting Started With Gradle: Creating a Binary Distribution