Blog & Articles by Torsten Mandry

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Test organization and naming
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Test Strategy
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Tests Granularity

In two previous posts we discussed the benefits of automated tests and the properties of a good test. So far we were trying to avoid differentiating the tests in any way. This time we want to address one way how tests can be classified: tests granularity.

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Anatomy of a Good Test
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Why you should write automated tests
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Visualizing the progress of a refactoring into a hexagonal architecture using jQAssistant

In my last project, we decided to refactor the inner structure of one of our services into a Hexagonal Architecture. It was clear that this was no task that could be done within a couple of days. During this long-running refactoring, we wanted to make our progress visible. Where are we now? What did we already have achieved? What do we still have to do? In this blog post, I describe the approach we took and how it helped us with our task.

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Cookie-based Spring Security Session
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Scraping a Docker Swarm service with Prometheus
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About unit and integration tests

The terms unit test and integration test are typically used as something different, or even opposite. In this blog post I explain why this is misleading and how I prefer to talk about isolation vs. integration instead.

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code-your-model

modularized modeling based on a project-specific DSL

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Prometheus Counters and how to deal with them
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Testen von Microservice-Systemen

Automatisiertes Testen ist in der Softwareentwicklung mittlerweile ein Standardvorgehen. Im Kontext eines verteilten Microservice-Systems wird üblicherweise das korrekte Verhalten jedes einzelne Services mit Hilfe von Unit-, Integrations- und End-2-End Tests verifiziert. Wie aber kann das Zusammenspiel der einzelnen Services getestet und sichergestellt werden? Die Idee, End-2-End Tests des Gesamtsystems zu erstellen, ist naheliegend. Ist dies aber sinnvoll, oder gibt es andere, besser geeignete Ansätze?

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Domain Exceptions?

Gibt es fachliche Ausnahmen und ist es sinnvoll, diese als Exceptions zu modellieren?