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Month: November 2017

Results of the Sun Checks on my code
CheckStyle – Enforcing a coding style: part 1

CheckStyle – Enforcing a coding style: part 1

This entry is part 1 of 4 in the series Implementing a Java code style with CheckStyle

The easy way – Using someone else’s rules. As my little tutorial project was going along, I started to realise that I really wasn’t doing a very good job of getting consistency in my code. Whilst I don’t have to worry about reviewers struggling through pull requests littered with formatting changes, I do care about the quality of my work. A while back I sent the following tweet: Why I am determined to keep the quality of my test code…

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Reaching GA – a marathon or a series of sprints?

Reaching GA – a marathon or a series of sprints?

Apologies for the silence….. For developers and QA alike, getting version 1.0 out of the door was a lot of hard work. I doubt my experience in this is very different from anyone involved in the majority of commercial projects as you push to get something concrete, and most importantly saleable out into the market place. For all the talk and effort through beta and release candidate releases to make it just another release, the emotional and mental effort has…

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