While the @Required annotation has been deprecated since Spring Framework 5, it’s not uncommon to encounter it in legacy projects. So, why should you care?…
12 Ways to Use the @Value Annotation in Spring for Flexible and Maintainable Applications
You may already be familiar with @Value annotation from Spring. This annotation allows you to inject some properties into your beans. But there’s a lot…
Understanding Spring Annotations: A Comprehensive Overview
Working with Spring involves using various annotations for application configuration, component linking, and behavior management. These annotations can be categorized into Initialization, Configuration Specifics, Stereotypes, Behavioral, and Testing. This overview provides insight into their functions and aims to guide the application of annotations in projects. Detailed guides on leveraging these annotations will be covered in upcoming articles.
Simplifying Dependency Management with Spring IoC
Developers faced challenges with setting up complex dependencies and managing them across all components. Traditional methods like the Factory Method proved limiting and tightly coupled. Spring introduced IoC to address these issues, reducing coupling, making components more reusable, and allowing focus on value-driven features. Spring IoC facilitates simplified dependency usage and enhances productivity.
Why Spring Matters for Java Developers
Writing Java Applications in the Past When writing Java applications in the past, writing all the functionalities from scratch was common. It was time-consuming, requiring…
Structural-Based Testing: Filling the Gaps in Your Test Suite
When writing tests for your code, it’s easy to miss some parts, which can lead to bugs. How can you ensure you’ve tested everything properly?…
Specification-Based Testing: Devise test cases
This is the last part of the specification-based testing series. Now we are going to put all of the knowledge that we gained from the…
Specification-Based Testing: Analyze boundaries
When conducting specification-based tests, analyzing boundaries is crucial. Boundaries, such as inclusive and exclusive intervals, often harbor bugs. For instance, in the CHIP-8 emulator code, the boundary condition for the carry flag at exactly 255 requires thorough testing. Testing exact, minus one, and plus one boundary values is essential to identify potential bugs and clarify code behavior.
Specification-Based Testing: Exploring partitions
When we are testing our code, we can’t only test things that will give us a successful return. Tests should be a way to help…
Specification-based Testing: Explore the program
The third step of the specification-based test is to explore the program behavior. You can skip this step if you wrote the code that you…