Java

Recently, I was reading the great book Effective Java, 3rd Edition by Joshua Bloch. An awesome book that I highly recommend to every Java developer. One of the items that caught my attention was Item 9: Prefer try-with-resources to try-finally. Bloch states: “It may be hard to believe, but even good programmers got this wrong most of the time.” What does that mean, and why is it important? Let’s dive into the details. ...

Writing unit tests is easy. Writing good unit tests is difficult. But what actually makes a good unit test? You may ask yourself this question when you start writing tests for your code. Or maybe you already have a bunch of tests, but they’re not as clean and maintainable as you’d like them to be. You surely found yourself in a situation where you had to change your code, but your tests were so messy that you had to rewrite them from scratch. ...