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Quality Assurance

Testing REST API with Serenity and Rest-assured

Rest-assured is a Java framework for testing and validating REST APIs. Serenity is an automated BDD(Behaviour driven development) acceptance testing framework. Rest-assured combined with Serenity […]
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Front-end

Introduction to React hooks

We have updated this text for you!Author of the update: Rafał Boszkowicz React 16.8 introduced some new functionalities, one of which is _Hooks_. What are […]
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Microservices

To microservice or not to microservice

Distributed systems have been around for a while. Since like 1970s we’ve been building applications with large scale in mind, and large availability. We went […]
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Java

How to use monads in Java

We have updated this text for you!Update date: 16.12.2024Author of the update: Tomasz Lenartowski Java is not a functional programming language. Despite the fact that […]
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Agile

Better planning and estimating

There are countless cases where major delays in product development are caused by poor estimation-related decisions. When it comes to both, high-level (long term features) […]
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Quality Assurance

Building executable jar with Cucumber tests

Depending on how continuous integration and regression testing is constructed in a project, there might be a need to run the same tests couple of […]
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Security

Why do you need to care about IT security?

We have updated this text for you!Update date: 18.12.2024Author of the update: Krzysztof Sedlak Over the past few years we have seen a surge in […]
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Python Microservices

Python meets microservice – useful tips based on experience

We have updated this text for you!Update date: 31.12.2024Author of the update: Damian Krupa It is impossible nowadays to not hear about microservices. It’s so […]
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Java Quality Assurance

Test your REST API with Spock – Introduction to Spock Framework

In this article I’d like to show you how to test your API with Spock Framework. Spock is a testing framework for Java and Groovy […]
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Quality Assurance

Tips & tricks learned during years of using Jenkins

We have updated this text for you!Update date: 24.01.2025Author of the update: Miłosz Nowak I would like to share with you some useful ways of […]
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