Picture yourself on a warm beach – margarita (or Shirley Temple) in one hand, laptop in the other, test-driving the next big thing. That’s what life is like every day for those of us in the great Sunshine State. Or not. But we still have a lot to offer, and since many of the agile…
Month: May 2008
Unit Testing Equals and HashCode of Java Beans
We’ve been creating several Java Beans that have an imperative need to have both equals and hashCode working correctly. To do this, we started off writing a series of test cases which made sure that for every field we exposed that the objects were / were not equal based on if the field was set,…
Serena Dimensions Redux
In a recent post I talked about being pretty disappointed with Serena Dimensions and its lack of strictly command line options. It appeared that no matter what you did, you still had to enter your credentials through the GUI pop-up box. After reading through the 380+page command-line reference, I’m happy to report that I was…
Test-Driven Development of Data Access classes with Hibernate and HSQLDB
Recently I’ve been working on a project using Java and a technology called Gigaspaces. Being back in the Java world has been interesting, but thankfully many of the tools and approaches are similar. One aspect of our application (Ok, many, but we’ll pick one) is responsible for retrieving and storing information to a database. To…