JIRA Game – Show Me Your Unit Tests

Here’s a fun little game you can play with JIRA, Git, and Feature Branches. Ideally, each Agile team should be creating unit tests for each story… but are they? Well, let’s make it fun!  Let’s make a game-show where a team and one of there stories is selected at random. Next we look at the commits on the JIRA (linked to revision control by the JIRA #), do the changes have unit tests on them?   package showMeYourUnitTest import groovy.json.JsonSlurper

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Initial GoLang Experience

Recently, I decided to try out GoLang for implementing a CRUD API, in a new project. I’ve got lots of experience in Java, Groovy, some Python, most recently. More of my recent experience has been in Java or Groovy plus Spring Boot. I’m getting a little bored, so why not take on some learning curve and have some fun. Requirements Here are some of the requirements Design and implement Data Model for a Domain Implement CRUD API Mongo database backend

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Java 11, RMI, CORBA, and EJBs

As part of a new project, I explored the possibly of re-using an EJB. This is to leverage the existing business logic rather than creating a copy which would then need to also be maintained. Attempting to Compile the EJB calling code in Java 11 served up a quick reminder. As part of JEP 320, the following are removed from Java java.corba module javax.rmi.CORBA javax.rmi (RMI-IIOP packages) Example section of code which would not compile Luckily, under the Eclipse Foundation’s

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