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Simone Romani @simoneromani.bsky.social · 8h

techtrenches.substack.com/p/the-great-...

An eye-opener read for whoever is working with tech and sees the AI hype rise above control.

The Great Software Quality Collapse: How We Normalized Catastrophe

The Apple Calculator leaked 32GB of RAM.

techtrenches.substack.com

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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 2d

"...and at the end, all the tests were passing."

I've seen them do it. Lots of other devs have seen them do it.

LLMs will sometimes cheat to make test suites green. They'll change assertions, comment out failing tests, set them to be ignored, or just plain delete them.

Two words: mutation testing

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Simone Romani @simoneromani.bsky.social · 1d

Looking forward to participating in this meetup! In great company too 😄

JUG Noord @jugnoord.bsky.social · 1d

Our next meetup will take place on November 4th at ING Leeuwarden to help you improve your testing with @timtebeek.github.io covering AssertJ and @simoneromani.bsky.social mutating tests for more confidence.

Sign up at www.meetup.com/jug-noord/ev... !

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OpenRewrite by Moderne @openrewrite.github.io · 4d

#OpenRewrite v8.63.0 is out! 🍂

🚀 Spring Boot to Quarkus migration recipes
🛠️ Oracle/MSSQL to PostgreSQL migrations
🤠 Jackson v3 upgrade recipes
🍁 Support additional Maven (re)sources
🧪 JUnit 5, 6 & Jupiter best practices
🔧 Expanded Hibernate 7 migration
➕ Many more fixes

github.com/openrewrite/...

Release v3.16.0 · openrewrite/rewrite-recipe-bom

What's Changed Incorporates the latest versions of OpenRewrite (v8.63.0), the rewrite-gradle-plugin (v7.18.0), and the rewrite-maven-plugin (v6.21.0) to improve code parsing accuracy and recipe ex...

github.com

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Simone Romani @simoneromani.bsky.social · 5d

Closing @devoxx.com with the final talk by @balarawool.bsky.social about virtual threads and the new concurrency features of the JDK

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Simone Romani @simoneromani.bsky.social · 5d

The final reckoning is coming 😄 #devoxx

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Johan Hutting @johanhutting.bsky.social · 5d

Finally...

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Makan Sepehrifar @makan1869.bsky.social · 5d

Ending of #devoxx

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Simone Romani @simoneromani.bsky.social · 6d

I will start experimenting next week, looking forward to having faster start up times for our JVM applications!

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OpenRewrite by Moderne @openrewrite.github.io · 15d

JUnit 6 is here! Ready to upgrade? We’ve got you covered with step-by-step recipes to move from 3 → 4 → 5 → 6.

docs.openrewrite.org/recipes/java...

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JUnit Team 💙💛 @junit.org · 15d

#JUnit 6.0.0 is released!

✨ Java 17 and Kotlin 2.2 baseline
🌄 JSpecify nullability annotations
🛫 Integrated JFR support
🚟 Kotlin suspend function support
🛑 Support for cancelling test execution
⏭️ New `--fail-fast` mode for ConsoleLauncher
🧹 Removal of deprecated APIs

docs.junit.org/6.0.0/releas...

JUnit Release Notes

docs.junit.org

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Simone Romani @simoneromani.bsky.social · 16d

Whoever is telling you to come to the office for days like this is not really doing a good job, I must say

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Devoxx Belgium @devoxx.com · 16d

All Devoxx Belgium 2025 eTickets have been emailed🎟️
✔️ Check your inbox (or spam)
✔️ Download to your phone/tablet
✔️ Show QR code at entrance for your badge
✔️ Max screen brightness = smooth scanning ✨

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Simone Romani @simoneromani.bsky.social · 19d

My very first contribution on the ING Tech Blog! I’m excited to share my experience with mutation testing and how it’s vital to strengthen your test suite to gain code quality and resilience.

Test smart. Test strong. Trust your code.

medium.com/ing-blog/gai...

Gain confidence in your code with mutation testing

Hi, I’m Simone, a Chapter Lead at ING and I’m responsible for the application gateway for all payments done via the Mobile Banking app…

medium.com

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Simone Romani @simoneromani.bsky.social · Aug 29

Just finished marking all my favorite talks happening at @devoxx.com , so many interesting ones! Looking forward to it

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Simone Romani @simoneromani.bsky.social · Aug 22

It’s not obvious because a number to chase could be seen as a scapegoat to reduce technical debt, instead of building a testing culture which is going to require more effort and alignment. It could be seen as a quick solution to put a green check to an Excel sheet.

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Simone Romani @simoneromani.bsky.social · Aug 22

www.atlassian.com/continuous-d...

“Good coverage does not equal good tests”

Don’t reach for a number, reach for a strong test suite. Inspire a culture in your team rather than putting a target to reach.

It will take you more time and effort, but the payback value is far higher.

What is Code Coverage? | Atlassian

Code coverage is a metric that helps you understand how much of your source is tested. Learn how it is calculated & how to get started with your projects.

www.atlassian.com

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Simone Romani @simoneromani.bsky.social · Aug 18

If I were you, I might even consider having a talk by whoever built the Devoxx website full stack and have them present what happened during the ticket purchase. Interesting case of how to handle extremely high load of requests on a predefined time-slot!

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Devoxx Belgium @devoxx.com · Aug 17

reg.devoxx.be/event/dvbe25 🔥🚀👀

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Simone Romani @simoneromani.bsky.social · Aug 11

Hope to see you there!! I’ll be showcasing how introducing mutations in code will highlight gaps in the test suite. Theory and live demo will be covered!

Johan Hutting @johanhutting.bsky.social · Aug 11

Just found out my colleague @simoneromani.bsky.social will be covering mutation testing at the Amsterdam JUG in September alongside @thedanicafine.bsky.social on Apache Iceberg and Soroosh Khodami on security, great program 🤩

www.meetup.com/amsterdam-ja...