Andrez Segovia

The following is an example of how to use the withFormParam method to customize the response of a stub based on the value of a from parameter.

In some test scenarios, a Spring Bean can become corrupted, causing other test scenarios to fail. To prevent this, we can annotate a test class or test method with @DirtiesContext, which tells the Spring Framework that the ApplicationContext is dirty, forcing the rebuilding of the Spring container and creating a new bean instances.

A JavaBean is a standard Java class with getter/setter methods, a no-arg constructor, and is serializable. And a Spring Bean is any Java object managed by Spring and can be automatically injected into other components. The Spring Dependency injection allows Spring to manage and inject beans where needed.

I’ve been learning more about testing spring boot application. I had tested spring boot applications before, but I had only used some basic features. Now, I would like to go deeper to explore what interesting things can be done with it.

The Mockito framework has the ArgumentCaptor class that can be use to validate the arguments passed to a mocked method.

Install the jq package:

macOS:

brew install jq

Linux:

sudo apt-get install jq

How to use it:

Julia Evans suggests keeping a document with all the work we’ve done —she calls it a Brag Document— to share with our managers, making their job easier during performance evaluations.

This StackOverflow answer explains the different between List.of and Arrays.asList.

String value = "a Á á É é Í 8 . - ? í Ó ó Ú ú ü / ! ¿";  
  
Stream.of(value.split("")).filter(s -> s.matches("\\p{L}"))  
        .forEach(System.out::printf);

//ÁaáÉeéÍiíÓóoOÚúü

The regular expression uses a Unicode character class escape with a General category property for filter only the letters.

[10:59] Where Jeremy talks about the disadvantages of using platforms such as FaceBook, Instagram, or Twitter.

On the Big Web, you never own your own home. You must rent your home from Megacorps. Most often, you don’t have to pay for your home using money. You pay for it by forfeiting your privacy, freedom of speech, and your other human rights. Collectively, we pay for it by forfeiting a democratic future.1

Surfing the web is about going on an adventure, it’s about clicking links and seeing where they go. You won’t find Web Revival sites on typical search engines, you won’t find them on social media sites and no algorithm will pick them out for you. To surf the Web Revival, you start on one site, you find links and you follow the trail; be brave, explore, keep going, keep going!¹