spring.factories

java

Have you ever wondered how it’s possible that spring-boot is able to pick up whatever you have on the classpath and configure application context to your needs based on some conventions and bit of black magic? In this post, I’m going to dig into spring.factories file on which most of the spring-boot power is based.

28 Mar 2019

On behavior verifications

best practices

When I’ve got some free time I try to add new features to springmock. Lately, after adding some new stuff I realized that double definition parsing class has more than one responsibility (class parsing, naming, definition creation, etc). So I’ve decided it’s time to refactor it and split responsibilities into dedicated classes. Once I did that and tests in the shared kernel started to pass I executed mvn verify just to be sure that everything was working and it wasn’t…​

6 Sep 2017

Introducing springmock

java groovy

I’ve been using springboot for some time now, but there was that one thing that bugged me a lot. While writing integration tests with mocks you are forced to use mockito as the mocking library. That’s great and easy to understand if you are not using spock. The problem is that in spock there are better ways to mock stuff…​

25 Jul 2017