Cranking up the challenge – Making my own rules. In the second of three posts on configuring CheckStyle as a code format enforcer, I will be looking at how to set my own rules by producing my own checkstyle.xml Disclaimer time. I was aware that there is a plugin for Eclipse to make this task easy. There were however two reasons that I didn’t want to do that. The point of this whole blog is to learn about the tools…
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…
DI frameworks are painful! This was a tough week and I am afraid that I don’t have any working code for you this week. I still have emotional scars from my attempts to configure dependency injection with Spring at work. After a lot of pain we eventually decided to use Google Guice and with it set up and running I don’t have too many problems adding to my framework. When I do mess it up however I find it very…
The background This was never intended to be an article in itself, but one of the problems with working on this late at night, is that sometimes I have to finish up, even though I know that there is another simple change I would like to make. In this case, my DriverFactoryTests were just screaming out for parameterisation. I know I had added some Windows 10 checks in there, but as I was of course running the tests over a…
So last week I got my code running on a home grid, but did not have time to explain what I did, so here goes… What is a grid and why would you use it? If you have pulled and run any of my tests, or tried building up something yourself, after the initial wow factor of watching a browser fire up and start doing things all by itself, you probably quite quickly got bored of having to stop pretty…